UNDERNEWS: Dealing with voting delays

March 5, 2020

Dealing with voting delays

Sam Smith - The long voting lines in Texas and California reveal one of the major problems with voting machines: they don't work well if you don't have enough of them. Strangely, there is a partial solution that nobody talks about: a law that would require paper ballots in cases where the waiting voters rose above a certain number. Sure, they take longer to count, but at least the counters get to sit in chairs rather than standing in line like current voters waiting for machines.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: They could use vote buy mail, with lots of free drop points like post offices and libraries and free standing election boxes. In Oregon where we started vote by mail a couple of decades ago, it has worked great.; March 5, 2020 at 11:27 AM

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