If you’re demanding hand marked paper ballots and not also demanding routine post-election risk limiting audits, you don’t understand what you’re demanding.
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Want to understand how to meaningfully improve election integrity? Start here: nap.edu/catalog/25120/…
How ballots are marked is meaningless if the tally system is compromised. Fortunately, Risk Limiting Audits are a recognized, reliable way to ensure correct election outcomes even if the tally system is maliciously tampered with, but they aren’t yet routinely done in most states.
The laser focus by some activists on demanding hand-marked ballots (which are already used in a large number of states) is unfortunate given that RLAs are at least equally important but much less common.
More broadly, it’s important to understand election security as a complex system, not as something that can be solved with a hashtag.
Unfortunately, advocating for RLAs has recently been muddied by shams like the Arizona “audit”, which, despite the name, has nothing in common with the rigorous post-election audits recommended by experts. But good audits remain critically important, and need to be universal.
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