<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>standardUser</author><text>We&amp;#x27;re going to hit a breaking point soon on faith in elections. We have poll workers refusing to work due to threats to their safety. We have an increasing number of candidates and elected officials who believe the last election was stolen in positions to override actual election results. We have an increasing number of people who want to &amp;quot;police&amp;quot; the polls (this one troubles me the most). And of course there&amp;#x27;s been a huge increase in restrictive and oftentimes convoluted voting laws that are going to confuse the hell out of people and result in many votes not being cast or counted.&lt;p&gt;We already have the majority of one party believing the last election as stolen despite a comprehensive lack of evidence. It won&amp;#x27;t take too many more people until a clear majority simply stop believing any election results are valid.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Video shows GOP fake elector giving &apos;unauthorized access&apos; to voting equipment</title><url>https://www.wabe.org/lawyers-seek-gop-fake-electors-data-in-georgia-election-equipment-breach/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wyldfire</author><text>Signed bootloaders, machines that print ballots which can be independently reviewed.  Maybe even unannounced audits by manufacturer or federal election officials would be useful (if there were some election mechanics standards that existed, I suppose).  We should be able to make it so that even if the equipment is not monitored minute-by-minute we can still be confident&lt;p&gt;Former Travis county clerk Dana DeBeauvoir teamed up w UT profs [1] to make voting more secure. let&amp;#x27;s roll out some standards across the country.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;dana-debeauvoir-texas-county-clerk-voting-tech-revolution&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;dana-debeauvoir-texas-county-cle...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Video shows GOP fake elector giving &apos;unauthorized access&apos; to voting equipment</title><url>https://www.wabe.org/lawyers-seek-gop-fake-electors-data-in-georgia-election-equipment-breach/</url></story>