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>At the end of the day, you randomly select say 1% of all the machines and hand count all the ballots inside, making sure the counts and votes match. If they do
by razakel 10y ago
>At the end of the day, you randomly select say 1% of all the machines and hand count all the ballots inside, making sure the counts and votes match. If they do, then you can be reasonably sure it wasn't tampered with, and if they don't match, then you can hand count all the paper ballots using the old system to verify the computer.
If you're working on the assumption that there's a possibility that the machines may have been tampered with, does it not stand to follow that the procedures for redress may also have been?
- jedberg 10y agoNot really. We all know it's easy to tamper with an electronic system, which is why we don't trust them. It's a lot harder to tamper with a paper and pen system where many people are involved. To many people to rat you out, too many people to have to all do the right thing at the right time, etc.