It has not been so far. If I put a box, certified sealed, in my truck, then drive to a warehouse where we read the number of paper ballots in the box and take a similar box with the correct number of paper ballots marked for my candidate, apply a certification sticker, and then deliver it to the central office for certification, where is your paper trail?
If that new box is part of a recount, there will be no way to tell if it’s been tampered with since, after all, it has the official paper seal on it with a signature and all of the tallies will match- number of voters at the precinct, number of ballots in the box. The correct box is out to sea.
So that box is fraudulent and dishonest. Is that going to be the case with every ballot box in the country? Is EVERYONE a crook? I don’t think so. With electronic balloting, it would only take ONE crook...
“If I put a box, certified sealed, in my truck, then drive to a warehouse where we read the number of paper ballots in the box and take a similar box with the correct number of paper ballots marked for my candidate, apply a certification sticker, and then deliver it to the central office for certification, where is your paper trail?”
So that box is fraudluent and dishonest. Is that going to be the case with every ballot box in the country? Is EVERYONE a crook? I don’t think so. With electronic balloting, it would only take ONE crook...
You can only keep honest people honest.
A flash drive can be palmed and could contain perhaps a complete election on a stick.