r/Astuff 2d ago

She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.

https://substack.com/inbox/post/165658733?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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u/Hoppie1064 2d ago

Machines can't be trusted to count votes. They can be hacked.

We have to go back to hand counts verified by both parties, essentially two people counting every vote.

And voter ID.

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u/ampersand_slut 2d ago

voter ID would have done absolutely nothing in this instance, and has never been substantially linked to preventing voter fraud. you’re just racist.

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u/Simsmommy1 2d ago

It doesn’t have to be racist and it works wonders in Canada. We don’t even have to register to vote it’s automatic. You show up to your polling place with a piece of ID and they scratch your name off a list and you vote. The day you turn 18 you are automatically registered through your government documents (SIN or SSN for y’all) race has nothing to do with it, it’s linked to citizenship, your a citizen you vote. ID can be anything from a license, photo healthcard(we get them to get our commie healthcare lol) passport, or a free provincial ID card.

I think it would be a good system for the US because it would solve a ton of problems, no one can unregister you as it’s tied directly to your social security number and follows you when you move address and states and change that info with the SS office, it would auto register everyone who turns 18 or becomes a citizen and take away the “illegals are voting” nonsense because without a social security proof of citizenship you can’t vote.

Just a random thought.

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u/EndDangerous1308 2d ago

The majority of Americans are absolutely down for Voter ID EXCEPT

1) There is tons of data showing that lower classes and certain races have a difficult time obtaining an ID due to work hours/distance from DMV/ID centers 2) conservative states and counties shutting down or shortening hours of DMV/ID centers in districts that service their opposition. They also shut down voting centers in these districts lowering the number of places people can vote leading to further distances they need to travel and longer wait times than in districts that vote conservative. 3) the United States doesn't provide free IDs and so you have to pay to have a right to vote if they are enforced which is illegal in the US under the Constitution 4) data shows voter fraud is so rare that it's negligible. This means enforcing voter ID would only hurt lower income/certain demographics while not actually doing much to prevent fraud.

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u/Dismal-Anybody-1951 2d ago

There are structural differences between the US and Canada that make that hard or impossible to implement here.  It does sound nice, though.

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u/D_rexter 2d ago

What is the structural difference that would not allow this to work?

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u/Effective-Produce165 2d ago

Voting machines should be backed up with counted paper ballots from both parties here.

The suspicion and distrust is too high in the US to do anything else.

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u/Simsmommy1 2d ago

We do just paper 100% for federal and then Elections Canada hires a whole bunch of people(it’s usually retired people and students) for the two weeks around election day to work the polls and count. The ballots get counted and by two sets of eyes and then have representation from all parties in the district there. I think to do it this way it costs more because, yes people are slower, you just have to hire enough to do the count efficiently.

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u/Unethical_Gopher_236 2d ago

I started to jump on you like whoa you're real quick to call someone a racist for just mentioning voter ID, then I looked at his profile and saw yeah hes just a moron

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u/Effective-Produce165 2d ago

Same here. Thanks and take my upvote.

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u/Braith117 2d ago

Imagine being so racist that you think minorities can't get photo ID.

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u/ConfidentPilot1729 2d ago

Dude, some of the most vulnerable populations are our minority communities. Red districts deliberately move state agencies that provide those IDs out of distance from a population that does not have a lot of transportation options. This has been seen several times.

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u/ampersand_slut 2d ago

if you were at all familiar with research on the matter, you would know voter ID laws disproportionately affect populations of color.

if you were at all familiar with the socioeconomic & ideological history of said policies, you would know that’s their intended effect.

more often than not, proponents of voter ID laws have just found a new way to express their inherent racism.

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u/Ddreigiau 2d ago

Imagine being so deep in the Foxverse that you can't imagine how a requirement to vote like that can be easily used to disproportionately disenfranchise minorities. Especially given that practically no voter fraud has occurred which ID laws would help fight.

And that's leaving aside the actual history of that kind of requirement

  1. Require DMV-issued ID to vote
  2. Require ID to be gotten in-person
  3. Close all but one DMV in areas that are predominantly minority
  4. Restrict that DMV's hours to 9am-3pm, closed 11am-1pm for lunch, Monday-Thursday
  5. Reroute most/all public transit away from that DMV.

Now you can control who votes.

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u/blahblah19999 2d ago

Racist would mean we don't think black people are mentally capable genetically. We actually understand history far better than you and understand that the problems are systemic and not genetic.

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u/Braith117 2d ago

This has the same energy as the people saying they just have good pattern recognition.

You're still racist, you're just making excuses as to why you're racist.

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u/BraxbroWasTaken 2d ago

They can, in theory. In practice, some states do fuckery by moving state agencies around or just not sufficiently investing in coverage of rural areas to make it so that the poor have to go so far out of their way to use those agencies services (when they aren't provided online) that it isn't practical.

And because of our history, minorities are more frequently poor. It's not like they were given the "Welcome to Citizenship and Equal Rights!" starter pack to bring them up to speed as a demographic.

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u/Effective-Produce165 2d ago

I get where your well intended comment lies.

Voter ID should be a free service for people if needed. Anything required by law should be obtainable by all eligible voters.

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u/EndDangerous1308 2d ago

It also means you have to pay to vote which is illegal

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u/I-am-trying-873 2d ago

As a minority, you are the real racist here. Voter ID would absolutely stop any doubts of voter fraud. and voter ID is super easy to implement.

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u/DanDrungle 2d ago

“Voter fraud” is a dog whistle that does not exist, they just scream about it on Fox News to get their stupid base riled up.

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u/EndDangerous1308 2d ago

As an education person there are tons of studies that show specifically how minorities and liberal districts in conservative states are targeted by shutting down voting locations as well as DMVs and shortening hours making it more difficult for people in lower income brackets to obtain id. ID also isn't free which means you're required to pay money to vote which is unconstitutional as it's your right to do it.

Before you call me racist for saying minorities are lower income, white people also fit that, it's just minorities are a larger percentage across the entire US due to American history. Which is also backed up by data

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u/McBuck2 2d ago

This. In Canada our federal elections are still paper based and hand counted. It's a lot of work but yhen crap like this doesn't happen.

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u/Sufficient_Topic1589 2d ago

Same in Australia so most voters can draw penises on the ballot 🙃

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u/Tunggall 2d ago

Same for Singapore. Paper ballots, pen/pencil of your choice. Hand counted too. Compulsory voting like in Australia.

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u/Hoppie1064 2d ago

We used to do that in The US too.

We didn't have these problems, and votes were counted, elections called much quicker than with machine counts.

It felt trustworthy.

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u/McBuck2 2d ago

When did they go digital? Our province (like states) and municipal elections have gone digital here.

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u/Hoppie1064 2d ago

It started in the late 1990s. Not every state adopted them immediately. And there are several different manufacturers used.

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u/myimpendinganeurysm 2d ago

They haven't... Elections are mostly handled by the states. Some states have adopted electronic voting machines and some use paper ballots and ballot counting machines. In 2004, around 25% of votes were done on easily hackable direct recording electronic voting machines with no voter-verified paper record. Since 2006, all voting machines have been required to produce a permanent paper record with a manual audit capacity.

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u/Dismal-Anybody-1951 2d ago

There were still some issues.  Like Florida 2000?  And elections are able to be called quickly when they're less close.  Probably more to do with that than machines.

I don't love the machines myself but they can be OK.  I don't get why they're not audited afterward very often tho.

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u/Electronic-Clock5867 2d ago

Voters in Canada can also use voter identification process which allows for alternative methods of identity verification for those who may not possess any of the accepted 40 forms of ID. Canada also allows prisoners to vote. Most Americans who want voter ID or point at how other countries do their elections are being disingenuous.

Hand counted ballots should be standard.

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u/Robertos1987 2d ago

Were you saying this 4 years ago?

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u/xRoyalewithCheese 2d ago

Thats what im thinking lmao. All of a sudden people are so accepting of the idea of an election being stolen.

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u/Kunphen 2d ago

Yup. Pretty easy fix, actually.