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The point is that paper ballots are harder to tamper with. To the point that at scale it becomes impossible to rig an election in the vast majority of cases. S
by deelowe 9y ago
The point is that paper ballots are harder to tamper with. To the point that at scale it becomes impossible to rig an election in the vast majority of cases.
Some things don't need a technological solution. Pen and paper and thumb dye generally work just fine.
- improbable22 9y agoAnd what seems most important to me, the failure modes are obvious. Any school teacher who's collected tests from naughty 10 year olds can imagine all of them. These are the people who volunteer to show up and watch the process, in every district. It's not enough to have a very low rate of cheating. The legitimacy of the process depends on this fact being clear to everyone. The fewer over-educated specialists you have to trust to be sure of this, the better.