Some Tennessee voters say they touched one candidate’s name on a voting machine but saw a different name selected. State election officials say unintended touches can cause that to happen.
You seem to be misunderstanding my point (perhaps I’m not making it clearly enough).
I agree with you that there is little evidence pointing to this being a significant problem. My point is that the fact that it can be a problem needs to be recognised and accounted for when weighing the pros/cons of different voting setups. This isn’t in the “aliens may invade earth tomorrow” category of unlikely, it’s more like “this most likely happens every single election, just not on a large enough scale to have any impact”.
Nobody benefits from this being brushed off with “and yet it doesn’t happen”. What we can benefit from is recognising that this likely (based on the evidence we have) happens on such a small scale that it doesn’t impact the outcome of elections, and therefore it’s an acceptable risk when weighed against the alternative, which is significantly lower accessibility to voting.
You seem to be misunderstanding my point (perhaps I’m not making it clearly enough).
I agree with you that there is little evidence pointing to this being a significant problem. My point is that the fact that it can be a problem needs to be recognised and accounted for when weighing the pros/cons of different voting setups. This isn’t in the “aliens may invade earth tomorrow” category of unlikely, it’s more like “this most likely happens every single election, just not on a large enough scale to have any impact”.
Nobody benefits from this being brushed off with “and yet it doesn’t happen”. What we can benefit from is recognising that this likely (based on the evidence we have) happens on such a small scale that it doesn’t impact the outcome of elections, and therefore it’s an acceptable risk when weighed against the alternative, which is significantly lower accessibility to voting.