Oliver explains that many Americans cast their votes on direct recording electronic voting machines, or DREs, that have no paper component recording their votes. This is a problem because there is no way to take a random sample of paper ballots and check them against the electronic vote to ensure they match up. This is just the start of a plethora of issues with these electronic-only machines, which were ironically installed due to the unreliability of paper ballots.
Even more worrisome is the how-to clip of hacking a voting machine, which doesn’t involve spyware or even a computer—the only equipment needed is a ballpoint pen. The voting machines are so precarious that even Trump agrees on the matter. “It’s old-fashioned, but it’s always good to have a backup … It’s not complex, it’s called paper,” Trump says, finding a way to mansplain the most basic recording tool on Earth.
Oliver points out that the solution isn’t to make totally unhackable machines, which is, as he says, impossible. But there is certainly a way to monitor to make them more secure. What happens in the most powerful country in the world affects the entire world and starts at the individual level.
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