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This time Germany may need to save the world from America. Please don’t fall like we did.
We'll have an election in a few days here in Germany. And we're already stumbling. The polls don't look wo good.
So sad to hear.
Hopefully you have much more robust fraud and manipulation systems of review than the us. Musk very likely compromised the systems and all investigations are stopped in their tracks
Don't worry on that angle we're using paper ballots, always have, always will, as the constitutional court decided that it must be possible for a voter with basic education and no specialised knowledge to ascertain for themselves that the vote is kosher. The constitutional court recently got reinforced, too. Not to mention that the federal level has preciously little power if the states really decided to tell it to fuck off. Also, as a Nazi you shouldn't trust a military that names bases after Stauffenberg.
Can a voter verify their ballot was counted and for who the votes were cast?
Yes. You can observe the whole vote, keeping an eye on the ballot box all the time until it is emptied on a big table, where it is sorted, and once sorted things get counted, there's a whole procedure to minimise confusion and with that errors, double counts etc. Unless a magician comes along and teleports your ballot out of the box you can then be sure that it has been counted.
What you can't do is prove to anyone that you voted a certain way and that's a good thing.
But can you prove to yourself that your vote for candidate a was cast for your name and no nefarious acts led it to go to candidate b instead?
Yes. I just described how.
History is doomed to repeat itself.
Clueless comment of the day. Has no idea whats happening in the world.