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....Or just be reasonable and use paper ballots. They're not actually that hard to count, they leave a hard to alter record, they require more effort to fake,
by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
....Or just be reasonable and use paper ballots.
They're not actually that hard to count, they leave a hard to alter record, they require more effort to fake, etc.
The under investment in voting and the focus on mechanizing it has been a disaster in the US and is teetering on the edge of being incredibly dangerous to the well-being of the country.
Electronic voting has none of the features we want and all the failure modes we don't. Return to entirely paper.
(For what it's worth, my area seems to basically use those test scanning systems on paper mail-in ballots. That's still more electronics than I like involved in the process, but is much better than fully electronic and we might be stuck with that as long as we use mail-in ballots -- which is a separate debate.)
- wahern 9y agoCalifornia is almost entirely paper ballots across the state. Moreover, 1% of ballots are hand-audited to verify the integrity of the electronic tally. Years ago there was a push for online voting. The state commission came away from that study suggesting a return to paper ballots, recommending to ditch even the new electronic voting machines that were becoming popular, because of the lack of credible, verifiable security. I think paper ballots are effectively required by law, now, with exceptions for accommodating people with disabilities.
- 15155 9y ago> That's still more electronics than I like involved in the process, I think most places that use these will use an additional count-by-hand pass afterwards. If someone is tampering with these count-only machines it's likely that they will be discovered and prosecuted.