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No. It's sacred to travel to a precinct polling station, and stand in line so as to hand mark a paper ballot. Also, whatever the count is at midnight Wednesday, November 4, 2020 should be the official results.

Sarcasm aside, online voting can't really be recounted or audited. Vote by mail states like CO did risk limiting audits to increase confidence that tabulations are correct. It isn't out of the question that rolling over a carry digit fails. It's very low probability, but it could happen. Without a risk limiting audit, you just won't know

There's a lot of material on this topic from the 200x's, the... unusual... 2000 and 2004 presidential elections caused a lot of examination of voting systems and procedures. Internet voting, as it was called back then, was proposed and scrutinized closely, and found lacking.



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