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> e-Voting could make it easier / cheaper to deploy polling stations, collect ballots faster, and potentially to use more complex (but more fair and accurate) v
by cyphar 8y ago
> e-Voting could make it easier / cheaper to deploy polling stations, collect ballots faster, and potentially to use more complex (but more fair and accurate) voting methods like Ranked Choice or others.
In Australia we use IRV (what you call ranked-choice) and we don't have any forms of electronic voting for federal elections, and the overwhelming majority of votes cast in state elections are paper ballots (which are hand-filled). You don't need e-Voting to solve that problem.
- unethical_ban 8y agoMaybe not for IRV specifically, though it would arguably be easier anyway. There are more esoteric (see, mathematically dependent) voting systems that meet the Condorcet criterion.
- cyphar 8y agoSure, but computer vote tallying and e-Voting are not the same thing.
- jonahhorowitz 8y agoYour votes are still probably counted by a computer. In San Francisco, we use optical scan ballots. This system is very similar. It prints out a ballot that you validate and feed into an optical scan machine. Marking the ballot is electronic, which allows for more language choices, assistance for hearing impaired people, etc.
- jacques_chester 8y ago> Your votes are still probably counted by a computer. They are not. The count is done thrice, by hand, under supervision by scrutineers appointed by candidates. It works very well.