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This completely misses the point. In a well-designed paper ballot election the ballot never leaves the polling station which can be monitored by anyone during t
by fsh 7y ago
This completely misses the point. In a well-designed paper ballot election the ballot never leaves the polling station which can be monitored by anyone during the entire process. This is simply not possible if you vote by mail. In the end you have to trust that the person who picks up the letters doesn't mess with them.
- donarb 7y agoThe thing is is that ballots aren't permanently stored at the polling location, they eventually need to be transported to a central location for auditing and storage. In the past, polling places with lax security could "lose" an entire box of ballots. Nowadays, if a couple thousand ballots disappear from a certain zip code, the authorities would be on it pretty quickly. In Washington state where I live and has email balloting, the central location is a secure county election facility that invites citizens to visit in person and through the internet to watch the counting process as it happens.