2026-10-22 01:38 UTC
RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3myfjcm3isk2h
I’ve heard reports exactly like this in • every • single • election • since 2004. And every time, when somebody finally manages to get to the bottom of it, it turns out the culprit is garbage UI design — not the machine secretly changing votes (because why would it •show• the user if it’s actually cheating?!).
But these breathless stories about touchscreen voting aren’t going die unless touchscreen voting itself dies — because it’s a terrible idea.
Paper ballots, marked directly by the voter themselves, validated and counted in an optical scanner. It’s not rocket science, folks.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io 2026-10-22 02:44
The lesson of the previous post is that real actual voter suppression doesn’t look like high-tech vote swapping that the hero of the movie stops by catching the sinister computer screen in a critical moment and then hacking things. It looks like crappy processes with crappy interfaces and crappy accountability whose purpose (in a POSIWID sense) is to confuse, thwart, vex, bamboozle, and exhaust voters.
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-10-22 01:41
@inthehands@hachyderm.io lousy UIs and touchscreen twitchiness. i'm one of those folks with very dry skin. i frequently have problems with touchscreens registering my touches correctly.
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@jessamyn@glammr.us 2026-10-22 01:42
@inthehands@hachyderm.io That's how we do it in Vermont. It works!