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Trump's Right Ear's avatar

We can make voting with paper ballots & counting by hand work only when enough people get off their ass & get engaged civically. Why is this so hard to understand? We have traded security for convenience because Americans have become LAZY & ENTITLED.

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Tim you make a great point, there are not enough people currently running the polls to even justify voting at the poll on machines! We should be pushing for internet voting through an app to resolve the current staffing issues. Let's trade transparency, locality, and security in favor of convenience. The application is internet connected, but will securely store your secret vote and not tabulate it until the close of the e-polls.

This system also would allow an easy recount, like you suggested is a way to identify potential issues with the system. Since the votes are stored in that application database, it would be very easy to just count those votes in the database and see that the numbers still match!

Handcount and machines will never be able to resolve the staffing issues or counting speed issues you pointed out, so it's time we do away with these silly notions of security and transparency and localized elections in favor of a system that expedites the counting.

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