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Thinking back to the Gore-Bush election and issues of ambiguous paper ballots during the very tight recount. Everyone remember hanging chads? Or double voted ba
by Spellman 9y ago
Thinking back to the Gore-Bush election and issues of ambiguous paper ballots during the very tight recount. Everyone remember hanging chads? Or double voted ballots? There's an argument to be had that digital systems are more robust and will enforce the proper rules in a non-ambiguous manner.
That's not to dismiss the claims of cost (projected to be cheaper than armies of manual counters) and speed (instant results on election night!) that also likely spurred this decision. In hindsight though we are learning of the other issues we have created while trying to solve the originals.
- jimrandomh 9y agoDuring the Bush-Gore election, the paper voting machines had ambiguities but the digital ones were actually hacked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volusia_error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volusia_error