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Donald Trump was right: GOP group finds over 4,000 miscounted votes in 2020. And they all go to Biden [1]
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Date: 2020-01-15
kwajkid: kwajkid: How can such a simple fundamental task be so complicated and poorly run?
The problem is that, the way it’s done in the USA, it’s not actually “a simple fundamental task”. On the very same day you get to cast individual votes for every office in the land from POTUS all the way down to municipal dog catcher, and that makes counting the ballots a very tedious and confusing exercise. No wonder the people who organise these events want computerised help for that, with all the additional potential for mix-ups and assorted failures, never mind actual malicious attacks, inherent in it.
Here in Germany, for example, we usually vote for the European parliament, the German federal parliament, the state parliament, the municipal parliament, the district administrator, and the mayor, but these elections generally take place according to separate schedules on completely different calendar dates. That means that – for most of these elections, notably excluding the ones for municipal parliaments, at least in some states – when you come to the polling station you get one or two different ballots where you make one or possibly two crosses each, which is a fairly straightforward pen-and-paper exercise where expensive voting machines aren’t really required. It also means that results are available fairly quickly and that the counting can be reasonably well supervised by representatives of the various political parties.
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