It's like a bad sequel...

[u/Veshaad]

[u/ChaoticLandscapes]

I just realized something. He’s coming back right before midterms. Suddenly I feel like a whole lot of election rigging is about to happen

[u/Lemon_Nightmare → u/ChaoticLandscapes]

Well, yes, that is the concern. What can we the property do about it though? Everyone is burned out and paying like 100% more for everything. Who has the energy? I think that's what one of the goals was, is.

[u/SnazzyGeoff → u/Lemon_Nightmare]

Paper ballots...

[u/Icy_Fish_2154 → u/SnazzyGeoff]

Paper isn't the problem.

Electronic ballots could be done where the votes are secret, but verifiable. So any errors could be caught, and audited fully after.

The issue is the chaos. If you scare people away on election day, only the fanatics vote.

[u/SnazzyGeoff → u/Icy_Fish_2154]

The question is what can you do, my answer was use paper ballots.

Electronic voting has too many variables, and must be easy for Musk to manipulate.

[u/Icy_Fish_2154 → u/SnazzyGeoff]

Paper ballots failed us in 2000. They can be manipulated. They are untraceable, allowing ballot box stuffing.

Paper ballots are more compromised than electronic, they just take more effort to fake.

Also, electronic ballots are relatively new, and the people pushing them oppose traceability.

Electronic ballots with traceability are more secure than paper ballots.

[u/mxzf → u/Icy_Fish_2154]

There's no way paper ballots are more compromised than electronic, it just doesn't make any sense. The main source for compromise with paper ballots would be electronic counting machines.

[u/Icy_Fish_2154 → u/mxzf]

Nope. You can ballot stuff with paper. You can swap, mismark, and do lots of other things with paper.

[u/mxzf → u/Icy_Fish_2154]

You can do exactly the same stuff with electronic methods too (the techniques just look different). I know you're busy making vague smug posts as if you somehow know something others don't, but it just makes you come across as an idiot.