• TechyDad@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Any computerized voting system should produce a human readable paper receipt which should be deposited into a box at the voting site.

    Alternatively, you can use a Scantron method (like my polling place uses). You fill in bubbles corresponding to who you want to vote for. A machine then scans it, adds your votes to the totals, and stores the original paper.

    Either way, you can do hand recount spot checks to ensure that the machine count matches with the paper trail. This was done in the 2020 election and no significant discrepancies were found. Of course, that didn’t stop the conspiracy theorists who just added more nonsense to their theories.