{"id":90166,"date":"2026-03-13T08:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90166"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:24:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:24:54","slug":"technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90166","title":{"rendered":"Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forty years ago, I volunteered to serve as Election Judge for the 1984 Presidential election. Paper ballots. Hand counted. Two judges verified each ballot.   We had one volunteer election monitor watching us count for a while but he got bored and left early. Yes, it took a while – I remember the sun coming up as we were finishing – but nobody in the room had the slightest doubt the count was accurate and fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember watching lawyers scrutinize “hanging chads” on television for the 2000 election that even the New York Times finally admitted was accurate and fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember watching poll workers hang cardboard over the windows so nobody could watch the count in 2020. I still don’t believe that result was accurate or fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key difference is transparency.  Why can’t we supplement eyeballs with technology?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hang a camera over every counting table, broadcasting to the internet in real time. The whole world can watch. Why not? What is there to hide?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Doakes<\/p>\n

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Because that would risk delivering the undesired result. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails: Because that would risk delivering the undesired result. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90167,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90166\/revisions\/90167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}