It was two years ago, Dec. 2, 2020, when Donald Trump, angling for anything to undo his loss to Joe Biden, claimed — with no justification or facts — that Dominion voting machines were rigged and, “we have to go to paper. Maybe it takes longer, but the only secure system is paper.”
Trump lost the national popular vote and the Electoral College without question and Dominion machines produce straight-arrow, triple-verified results, but the defeated man was entirely correct about paper ballots. Following the 2000 Bush-Gore Florida recount fiasco, a joint MIT/Caltech study found that the most secure voting is by paper ballots, which can be hand-counted in close contests.
New York State is soon finishing this year’s hand counting exercise, which as Trump pointed out, takes longer, but gets final, conclusive outcomes.
