A bipartisan, GOP-led voting machine security bill that would actually fix vulnerabilities in US elections

That’s at least one step more complicated and less secure than many of the voting machines already in service, because you could theoretically tamper with a machine to spit out a human-readable ballot that shows different information than what was actually recorded (and even that assumes voters will take the time to read over their paper receipts).

In California and several other states we fill out simple, clearly human-and-machine-readable ballots by hand and feed them into the machines ourselves. If there is every any reason to believe a machine has been tampered with the original hand-marked ballots are still kept on hand for independent verification.

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