UPDATE FOR CLARIFICATION, UPDATED ON 9/10/2024 and 9/11/2024.
Kamala Harris suggested that paper ballots might be the best and most secure option when it comes to elections. As of now, Kamala Harris still appears to support paper ballots. The Dispatch provided more context in a fact check, and it said:
There is no evidence that Harris has changed her views on paper ballots, and she actively supports legislation that would require their use. In February 2024, Harris urged Congress to pass the Freedom to Vote Act—first introduced by Democrat Amy Klobuchar in September 2021—which, among other measures, would “require the use of an individual, durable, voter-verifiable paper ballot of the voter’s vote selections,” and “provide the voter with an opportunity to correct any error on the paper ballot before the permanent voter-verifiable paper ballot is preserved.”
Just the News provided context on her previous statements from several years ago:
Following Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, she said she joined Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., on a bill that would help fund election infrastructure regarding paper ballots.
“We have proposed that part of the investment in infrastructure has to be upgrading the infrastructure of states around elections,” Harris said. “Because, guess what? As it turns out, for all that technology has brought us, good and bad, the best and most secure way to conduct elections? Paper ballots.”
“‘Cause, the way that I say it, kind of half-joking, ‘Russia can’t hack a piece of paper,’” Harris continued.
