{"id":31550,"date":"2017-09-13T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31550"},"modified":"2017-09-13T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T15:22:07","slug":"securing-our-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31550","title":{"rendered":"Securing Our Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Washington Examiner<\/a> posted a story about voting in the Netherlands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Mickey Kaus<\/strong><\/a> notes that the Netherlands is going to go back to conducting its elections with paper ballots<\/a>. “Dutch go old school against Russian<\/a> hacking,” he notes, linking to a Politico Europe<\/a> story. Kaus adds an appropriate shout-out to Glenn Reynolds<\/a> of Instapundit<\/a>, who has been calling<\/a> for paper ballots for years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Going back to paper ballots may strike many people, as it used to strike me, as retrograde. Isn’t it a lot faster to count electronic votes? Isn’t there a danger that paper ballots can be altered, defaced, and burned? Isn’t electronic voting<\/a> cooler and more up to date?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I have stated before, technical things mystify me. However, it does seem to me that having a paper record to verify voting totals is a good idea. It may not be necessary to go back to counting paper ballots by hand if we can scan them by machine and have the physical ballots to verify the totals.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The fact is that sacrificing a bit of speed for reliability is probably a good trade. The strongest argument for paper ballots is that they can’t be hacked. The second strongest is that there is an independent record of each ballot cast, which some computerized systems lack.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It may take a long time to count ballots in some states where they include many offices and ballot propositions, but people can wait. And recounts of paper ballots can result in disputes over hanging chads and the like, but these are difficulties our republic has been handling for over 200 years. My vote is for paper ballots.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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