Generating a printed ballot is actually a good thing. It means you can recount the ballots, rather than relying on purely electronic votes on a memory card.
However, it requires security measures like a bar code or watermarking on every ballot. I don't know if the Dominion system does anything like that.
I'm in Nevada, and used the Dominion machine to vote. It prints out a paper ballot on a receipt paper thing on the side that is "not accessible" to you. The paper is behind a clear plastic viewer, and you can check your ballot before you cast it. The selections have a big ass QR code. The QR code could be anything.
The thing about the paper trail on those machines is...
The poll workers have to fucking OPEN the machine to refill the receipt paper I shit you not. I overheard them say this about refilling a machine near me while I was voting. Apparently they have to break a security seal to do - I saw a write up on it but I need to go back and find that.
These things were made to be insecure as possible.
There’s only one reason such a machine or voting process exists, and that’s to more easily rig elections
Generating a printed ballot is actually a good thing. It means you can recount the ballots, rather than relying on purely electronic votes on a memory card.
However, it requires security measures like a bar code or watermarking on every ballot. I don't know if the Dominion system does anything like that.
I'm in Nevada, and used the Dominion machine to vote. It prints out a paper ballot on a receipt paper thing on the side that is "not accessible" to you. The paper is behind a clear plastic viewer, and you can check your ballot before you cast it. The selections have a big ass QR code. The QR code could be anything.
The thing about the paper trail on those machines is... The poll workers have to fucking OPEN the machine to refill the receipt paper I shit you not. I overheard them say this about refilling a machine near me while I was voting. Apparently they have to break a security seal to do - I saw a write up on it but I need to go back and find that.
These things were made to be insecure as possible.
Texas has rejected certification of the Dominion systems, apparently on three separate occasions.
The point is it should all be done with pen and paper and a voter signature, the whole idea of electronic voting is designed for fraud
There's no voter signature on a ballot, ever. Signatures are only on the security envelope enclosing the ballot.
Ballots are secret, for good reason.
Misspoke, you are right