This has been a major concern for those of us who just want honest elections with every legal (and that's the important term) vote counted. Unfortunately, with the advent of computing and electronic voting, there have been attempts to rig elections electronically. Venezuela is one of the first examples of this, using machines that could change votes. As Joseph Stalin famously said "It's not who, or how many, votes; it's who counts the votes". These voting machines in Venezuela were what kept the tyrant Hugo Chavez in power and his subsequent successor, Maduro in power to the ruination of a once magnificent country.
The algorithm for these machines, which were used in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was programmed for Hillary Clinton to win, but not by an amount that would raise eyebrows, which was probably why she felt comfortable in not campaigning as much as one would normally do. She thought the "fix" is in. The problem was, Donald Trump got so many votes, the programmed algorithm was overwhelmed and he won the election. In the 2020 election, Biden miraculously got 81 million votes (way more than Barak Obama, despite being a weak candidate who barely won his own party's primary.
So how do we fix it. The solutions run from using only paper ballots to ballots that have watermarks, making duplicating ballots far more difficult. Some states take suspiciously protracted time to "count" their ballots, ie. Arizona, Georgia, and CA. One idea is to not accept ballots for national elections from those states unless they conform to a national standard for ballots and voting. Regardless of which system is used, it is crucial to get a system in place to give our citizens confidence that their vote actually matters.
This has been a major concern for those of us who just want honest elections with every legal (and that's the important term) vote counted. Unfortunately, with the advent of computing and electronic voting, there have been attempts to rig elections electronically. Venezuela is one of the first examples of this, using machines that could change votes. As Joseph Stalin famously said "It's not who, or how many, votes; it's who counts the votes". These voting machines in Venezuela were what kept the tyrant Hugo Chavez in power and his subsequent successor, Maduro in power to the ruination of a once magnificent country.
The algorithm for these machines, which were used in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was programmed for Hillary Clinton to win, but not by an amount that would raise eyebrows, which was probably why she felt comfortable in not campaigning as much as one would normally do. She thought the "fix" is in. The problem was, Donald Trump got so many votes, the programmed algorithm was overwhelmed and he won the election. In the 2020 election, Biden miraculously got 81 million votes (way more than Barak Obama, despite being a weak candidate who barely won his own party's primary.
So how do we fix it. The solutions run from using only paper ballots to ballots that have watermarks, making duplicating ballots far more difficult. Some states take suspiciously protracted time to "count" their ballots, ie. Arizona, Georgia, and CA. One idea is to not accept ballots for national elections from those states unless they conform to a national standard for ballots and voting. Regardless of which system is used, it is crucial to get a system in place to give our citizens confidence that their vote actually matters.
We agree: Regardless of which system is used, it is crucial to get a system in place to give our citizens confidence that their vote actually matters.