2021-08-12 19:12:43
I thought we've learned our lesson? Electronic devices can be hacked.
Arizona Rep. Mark Finchem, candidate for Secretary of State, launched a video today promoting the Arizona Ballot Integrity Project, ensuring "full-spectrum transparency for the PEOPLE". According to Rep. Finchem, they have been working on this ballot integrity project at the capitol, which includes replacing the states' traditional paper ballots in exchange for ballots with fraud counter measures including watermarks, QR codes, and voter numbers...similar to those in our currency.
In the video, Rep. Finchem says,"Election integrity relies on full-spectrum transparency...We can have full-spectrum transparency by making every ballot image a public record, available to everyone, all the time. There's no reason not to do this."
I couldn't disagree more.
After watching the Maricopa County audit play out in real time on camera for the last four months, I've learned to trust what I can see. I trust paper ballots that can be held, hand-counted, examined, and recounted, if necessary.
What I've learned to distrust over the last nine months is anything and everything having to do with electronics and voting. This includes poll books, voting machines, modems, routers, scanners, and jump drives. I've also learned transparency ends the moment any ballot gets fed into any voting machine. Period.
Personally, I don't want my ballot image to be public record, available anytime, for anyone to see. What I really want is to cast my paper ballot in person. Then, once they receive it, I want to watch my ballot make its way through the entire process on camera from beginning to end. This is the type of transparency I trust, and this is the only way I will ever trust the outcome of another election.
That said, unless Rep. Finchem's new secure ballots can be hand counted, never going anywhere near anything electronic, I'm not interested.
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