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It's quite easy to make them disappear or bulk fill them. Like bank notes, paper ballots can be counterfeited. Canton of Geneva have open sourced their voting
by roselan 9y ago
It's quite easy to make them disappear or bulk fill them. Like bank notes, paper ballots can be counterfeited.
Canton of Geneva have open sourced their voting app. https://github.com/republique-et-canton-de-geneve/chvote-1-0 https://github.com/republique-et-canton-de-geneve/chvote-1-0
Of course there will never be a perfect way. However, I have a feeling that by multiplying voting methods, fraud impact can be contained. Mail vote increases the number of people voting and have the same positive effect (drowning a fraud in valid results).
- deelowe 9y agoI doubt this is the case at least in the US. Polls are staffed locally by volunteers who are quite often members of the local community. Others can (and do) stay and witness the counting of votes when polls close. I think it would be pretty obvious if what got posted didn't line up with what you witnessed first hand just a few hours before, especially when you can walk down the street and ask your sister what she counted.
- Symbiote 9y agoI believe that in the UK, the number of ballots given out at the polling station is strictly counted, and when the ballot box is opened, the first check is that the number in the box matches. I'm not sure what they do if someone has taken a ballot but not put it in the box.