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Electronic voting allows for superior voting systems like Condorcet methods, that are too expensive to implement by hand. My ideal system is two separate machi
by Houshalter 10y ago
Electronic voting allows for superior voting systems like Condorcet methods, that are too expensive to implement by hand.
My ideal system is two separate machines. One takes votes and prints them onto a paper ballot in OCR readable font. The voter can then inspect their ballot to make sure the machine didn't alter it, and then turn it in.
Then another machine can read the ballots and table the votes. This machine doesn't need any kind of input other than paper ballots, and its easy to test it and verify it's working properly. This limits the surface area for attacks and tampering.
The machine then outputs a big table of the pairwise election results for every single candidate. You add the tables from every single voting station, and the candidate that would win every pairwise election against every other candidate, wins the election.