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I don't have a problem with electronic voting if: The electronic machine has a nice UI. Clear. Offered in multiple languages. Maybe even show pictures of th
by DannyB2 9y ago
I don't have a problem with electronic voting if:
The electronic machine has a nice UI. Clear. Offered in multiple languages. Maybe even show pictures of the candidates. Touch screen. It's all great.
It MUST produce a paper ballot that clearly shows what my vote is. I put it in a cardboard sandwith for privacy. I drop the ballot from the cardboard into ANOTHER machine that instantly counts my vote. A readout on the top of the machine shows the total number of ballots counted today. I can see that number increment as my ballot is scanned and dropped into a basket within the machine's guts. That gives me a feeling of assurance that my vote was counted and scanned. What the machine scans is the same exact thing on the ballot that my eyeball scans. That way the "human readable" part of the ballot cannot differ from the "machine readable" part of the ballot since they are one and the same.
Now at various points during the day, the election officials could obtain the number of votes to each candidate in order to update the press on how it is going.
A statistical audit for anomalies can be done -- even on the paper ballots.
If needed, a laborious manual recount could be done using the paper ballots.
You get the reliability of paper ballots and recounts. And the convenience of modern UIs and rapid counting.
- baddox 9y agoFYI, it's generally ill-advised to report official vote counts from a polling location before those polls are closed, because doing so is likely to discourage later voters.
- Doxin 9y ago> It MUST produce a paper ballot that clearly shows what my vote is. Congratulations, you've invented a very expensive pencil. > ANOTHER machine that instantly counts my vote. A readout on the top of the machine shows the total number of ballots counted today. Which can be hacked to show you the correct count, but not report the correct count later on. At which points obviously the paper ballots can be emptied out and verified, but then which part of this isn't paper voting except with complex machines needlessly inserted? Paper votes can be counted quickly by machine if so desired, but the counting machines will have to be monitored and watched carefully to make sure they tally correctly. Essentially they cannot be placed in a public area where just anyone has access.