(#6001) We democrats need to vote early

      I have a problem believing the voting machines are safe from being manipulated. I think the early paper ballot is the way to go so that we are not at the mercy of tech. that could be manipulated. I take a picture of my finished ballot along with the number on the ballot. It is my record of what that numbered ballot should look like. A sort of evidentiary fallback. We all must have some way to believe our votes are being counted properly when in this day and age too many have shown their untrustworthiness. I am one who in the back of my mind is still suspicious of how trump could have won all 7 swing states when he was polling so poorly prior to the vote.
     I won't go into conspiracies here but I am wary of how to make sure my vote is counted as I marked it and not how someone else could change it if they were able. Better safe than sorry kind of deal. If I have a recording of my ballot, it's number, and the choices I made then if and when it needed to be challenged I would have proof of its authenticity. We all need to have some kind of assurance that our votes are being tabulated as they truly are. I am not an election expert but I am cautious. I just want the true will of the people through our votes to be counted correctly, even if it means me losing to another majority desire.
     What I don't want is cheating to create a different outcome than a true majority cast vote. The beauty of democracy is that when the majority make known their desire our country is guided by that. Not the whim or intentional strategy of those who won't work with the majority to nuance any policy they may disagree with. The give and take between majority opinion and minority opinion is how we move forward as a nation. Depriving us of the very foundation of democracy creates an erosion that is not the will of the people. Those who would take our majority expressed will and supplant it with their own is what I am most concerned about and why not only my vote, but each of our votes, must be protected as it was truly cast.