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8/23/2017 | 5:22:33 PM
I don't know when actual physical voter fraud ended (that's something historians know). Dead voters don't vote until the vote counters count them, and they vote to make the totals add up. It's a pretty sophisticated system. But it only works if there aren't auditors, or maybe even observors, to keep the vote counters honest. Our system works because voters believe that vote counting fraud is small enough that it "usually" doesn't make a difference (that is, it's always somewhere else, and only a few places, and only a few votes in the House of Representatives, and "we" outvote "them").
So to protect the system, our only defense is to create an audit trail and have observors of the entire process. That means that we have to admit that the system is hackable and make it robust so that we can re-count the votes as needed (just as in the paper ballot days); allow for legal challenges as to which ballots were legally and/or legitimately cast (just as in the paper ballot days); allow for spoiled ballots (ditto); allow for potentially lost and/or rediscovered ballots (but at least not in the trunk of a car [we hope -- or is a lost and rediscovered thumb drive possible? -- politics guarantees full employment for lawyers]); and who knows what else? An armed citizen insurrection to guarantee public counting of ballots (Athens, TN, 1946)?