• AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        I first started complaining about this back in 2000, when it was said that all you needed to shift an election was 5 minutes alone with one of these machines and a USB drive. Of course everybody was calling me paranoid. You don’t even need a USB drive now.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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          3 hours ago

          Like even that aside technology is inherently malfunction prone, even if they were unhackable there’s always the chance something goes wrong. With a piece of paper the worst that can happen is that it gets destroyed and reduced to null.