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Broken clock syndrome. You don't have to be a MAGAt to think that paper ballots are more secure than digital ones.
https://xkcd.com/2030/
It isn't the paper ballots that are the problem, it's the hand counting. Many states use paper ballots which are then counted by electronic tallying machines. This method gives results quickly and has the paper ballots to be counted manually if there are discrepancies. Hand counting is slower, less accurate, and just as vulnerable to malicious actors.
HI! My name is Chad, and I'll be hanging over here, just to confuse you
These types of ballots don’t have chads. They have circles you fill out with a pencil or black marker, very similar to standardized tests like SAT’s. After you fill it out you feed it into an optical scanner that tallies the votes.
At the end of the election officials simply add up the results from each optical scanner. And if there’s a legitimate concern about the counts, or simply a desire to audit a machine then you just pull the ballots from one or more machines, count the results, and compare those with what the scanner counted.
So you have an easily audited paper trail and the ability to audit small sets of ballots/machines rather than hand counting everything.
I was making a joke, kinda like the following,: I'm still pissed that Chad overthrew the election
Brooks Brothers riot and the SC otherthrew that election. I remember when that happened and I only years later learning about the riots. For some reason, I just remember people making Chad jokes.
That was my first presidential election as a voting age adult. I was 20 that year. Before the DC sniper was caught, while they were doing their thing, I had surmised that they were taking potshots at The SCOTUS for overturning the legitimate election, and forcing Dubbaya on us.