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Independent of whether paperless electronic voting systems are specifically banned by law, buying and using them creates the appearance of deliberately enabling fraud; the consensus among professionals in the relevant fields is that they're unacceptably insecure.

So why don't we prosecute the voting officials who did this? Or at the very least get them out of sensitive positions?

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The thing that really bothers me about this is that there's zero reason for something like a voting machine to not have at least a minimal paper trail and proper air gapping. Municipal townships should not be putting anything online without hiring a professional company that's actually required to maintain standards (such as bill pay). Since most poll workers are volunteers, there's zero way that this is possible. Using magnetic cards that aren't good enough for financial transactions doensn't pass muster. Voting should be at least if not more secure than financial transactions.

They should be voted out of office immediately! Oh, wait...

"Despite some early hiccups, polls show that 417% of voters support using these voting machines."

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