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Yes. Because - assuming you keep the paper ballots around somewhere - someone 2000 miles away can't manipulate what those paper ballots say.

• JadeNB 10y ago
  > Yes. Because - assuming you keep the paper ballots around somewhere - someone 2000 miles away can't manipulate what those paper ballots say. But someone on the premises can. It's not as if there was never election fraud before computerisation!
  • grzm 10y ago
    True. With paper ballots it is more localized. Chains of custody along with observers from multiple parties help prevent collusion. Like all security, you can only minimize, not eliminate, risk.
  • meowface 10y ago
    It's a lot harder to organize multiple staff at multiple polling stations in multiple precincts - enough so that it's unlikely someone not in on the plan won't notice what's going on, all of whom are willing to cover for each other and who won't leak, and who can somehow protect the ballots against independent auditing, to conspire to manipulate paper ballots than some guy in another country just compromising the polling station and tweaking the numbers slightly to give one side an edge. Election fraud is possible in any system, but it's a lot easier when the system is purely computer-based.