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All of these questions can be answered by "you have to trust the election officials, and the election officials have to do their due diligence." Which is true
by nmrm2 11y ago
All of these questions can be answered by "you have to trust the election officials, and the election officials have to do their due diligence."
Which is true of paper voting as well.
- huxley 11y agoDoesn't have to be. You can have a system with multiple levels of verification. For example in Canada, each party is allowed to appoint an on-site representative for each ballot box to observe the voting process, the count (and ensure it matches the number of voters and ballot stubs) and the paperwork (a copy of which is sealed in the ballot box which can be unsealed in the event of a judicial recount). Trusting election officials doesn't have to be a passive process like it would be in an electronic voting system.
- nmrm2 11y agoThe US also has this; we call them poll watchers. My point was just that at some point, you have to trust that someone is paying attention. Paper doesn't magically solve that problem.