Vulnerable Voting Machine Raises Questions About Election Security (2015)
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No. In New Mexico, there are paper ballots that are machine tabulated. Not voting machines. Looks like NM also does risk limiting audits, and has the ability to do hand recounts.
The funky voting machines in this article are the reason why vote by mail states like NM, CO, OR, WA have the tabulating systems they do have, with hand marked paper ballots, and why risk limiting audits take place. Stories like this and the 2000 Florida presidential election debacle caused a lot of states to make changes that mattered, and that make sense, not just limit drop boxes, require voters to stand in line on Tuesdays at a limited number of precincts and accept whatever count exists at midnight Wednesday.
Articles from 7 years ago simply aren't relevant, and reporting them uncritically serves only to create and maintain vague public suspicion about voting. So why post this?
The 2000 election, which produced the desired result of a Republican Bush presidency did not cause all the efforts to discredit voting and democracy in general. I suspect that a Republican win in 2020 would not have resulted in these in American PR campaigns
Democratic leaders were calling the election illegitimate as late as 2006.
Even now, some leftish publications claim Gore won.
To be clear, using the rules as they existed at the time of the election, Bush won.
He won Florida by less than 20 votes - possibly as few as 6 votes. Out of hundreds of thousands.
But he won.
If Al Gore had chosen different districts to push for recounts, Gore would have won (possibly as few as 4 votes).
But he didn’t.
The Democrats - and the elites in general - absolutely challenged the legitimacy of the election. And still do.
And frankly given how small the margin of victory was, o understand why.
But 2000 really is when the shadow was cast over the election system.
Bringing up problems that have been dealt with, as if they're still relevant as a means to decrease confidence is so obviously the wrong response I haven't words strong enough to condemn it. It's unamerican.