The Only Safe Means of Voting: Paper Ballots

The Only Safe Means of Voting: Paper Ballots
(Todd Berkey/The Tribune-Democrat via AP)

The 2020 election season started with clear examples of the folly of our unquestioned faith in technology for voting. As things stand, it may end with the coronavirus fully exposing how wrong-headed election officials were for putting their faith in machines.

Like a lot of political observers, I was dumbfounded by the collapse of results reporting during the Iowa caucus on February 3. That problem was the result of a combination of a coding error in a new app they were using for reporting and insufficient vetting of the system by party officials. Democratic Party officials’ reliance on that technological system undermined voters’ faith that their votes counted and may have cost Iowa its first-in-the-nation caucus status.

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