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Hand counting is very likely less accurate than machine counting.
by rhino369 9y ago
Hand counting is very likely less accurate than machine counting.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoDoesn't have to be perfectly accurate - it only has to be in the ballpark of the correct amount and with low deviation. In voting, a method with consistent +/- 1% error is better than a method that generally has +/- 0.0000001% error but can be trivially hacked to produce +/- 50% error. Elections aren't usually decided on a single vote, and in those rare cases, you can recount stuff few more times to be sure.
- banku_brougham 9y agowith the notable exceptions of: software failures, adversarial exploits, malicious design, et al