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PaulitoTuGato t1_iztmc4m wrote

Reply to comment by knign in Recount flips Mass. House election to Democrat by 1 vote by TurretLauncher

I get what you are saying, it can’t go on recounting forever and a vote or two isn’t much. The fact that counts can’t ever be verified to specific numbers is scary to me, and leads me more into lacking faith in our election system

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knign t1_iztok26 wrote

I don't know if you were old enough around year 2000 to witness this whole Florida recount debacle, "pregnant chads" and all that, but this was a good illustration why counting paper ballot is always imprecise, to some small degree. You can alter design of the ballot to minimize factor of randomness, and enforce some strict standards on canvassers, but it will never be zero.

The only ultimate solution here is electronic voting, where voter's intent can't be misinterpreted; however, in practice, people will never trust machines (even with paper trail), because "everything can be hacked". So we are stuck with paper ballots.

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PaulitoTuGato t1_iztq147 wrote

I was born in 86 and wasn’t interested in politics until more recently. It is a complicated system that I still don’t fully understand. What is your opinion on mail in ballots? I didn’t vote that way, I don’t know how they look or how they are counted. If you have any insight I would appreciate it. It seems plausible to me that these could be some of the ballots you mentioned having to be inspected by a person?

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