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They tried to. The companies manufacturing the devices refused.

• pbhjpbhj 8y ago
  Rule one (1) for voting machines should be something along the lines of making examples available for testing to all main political parties; and at cost price to all people who are electoral candidates. The parties then can have them analysed and choose whether to use them or not, perhaps something like all those with more than 10% of the vote previously could decide whether to use machines or human counting; full consensus required. Rule two (2) should be something along the lines of all votes requiring an agreed sampling to be counted via alternative methods. You could even have a sample of electoral wards not use the machines at all - that would suggest irregularities if there was tampering, as the hand [machine] counted wards would have different voting preferences to the others.