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Hand-counting only. Hand-count twice for security. To hell with the scanners. Don't introduce fallible, hackable image recognition nonsense to a process which c

• Iv 9y ago
  I have participated several times to the counting operations in elections in France. Here is how you set it up: - Open the ballot box. - Separate the ballots in packs of 100. - Make tables of 4 volunteers. Each gets a pack. - One person opens the envelop - One person reads the ballot - Two persons tally the score on a sheet - Compare both tallies at the end. If they are not in sync, do over. - Compare the sums to the envelopes in the pack. If it is not 100, do over. All of these tasks are really easy, so you don't have to be smart of even literate to participate. Also, everybody can check what everybody is doing. The person reading the ballot shows it, so they can't change the name. The person opening the envelope sees the names and you can easily follow the counting too. If people come as a group to volunteer they are typically spread around several tables. That way, you have triple check of the count, and actually in the end I think the people responsible for the voting station also compare the voting registers (you sign next to your name after voting) to the tallied total of envelopes and votes. So that would be quadrupled checked in the end. We typically get official results the evening of the day the voting stations closed. To this day I don't see any practical reason to switch to electronic voting unless someone wants to fraud.