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I don't see why we can't use open source voting software, low cost PCs and old fashioned punchcard machines. The problems in 2000 were all about data not be co
by stretchwithme 8y ago
I don't see why we can't use open source voting software, low cost PCs and old fashioned punchcard machines.
The problems in 2000 were all about data not be correctly recorded. That was solved a long time ago. There never was a need to start transmitting the data electronically.
Now we can use electronic gathering of the data AND automatic counting of the physical ballots to help prevent fraud. But replacing physical ballots with electronic vote collection wasn't really needed.
But lobbyists saw an opportunity.
- stonesixone 8y agoThe City and County of San Francisco has started funding a project to do just this. More info can be found here: https://osvtac.github.io/ https://osvtac.github.io/
- tracker1 8y agoscan-tron ballots are generally the best option imho. You can scale quite a bit at a polling station as well as not tying up one costly machine per person in queue. Coordination of ballots for localized districts is still one of the more difficult issues for both print and electronic voting though.