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It's actually really hard, because the ballots are kept and can be verified by the voters. Keeping a full paper trail is a great protection against fraud.
by moomin 7y ago
It's actually really hard, because the ballots are kept and can be verified by the voters. Keeping a full paper trail is a great protection against fraud.
- mstade 7y agoNot to mention the sheer amount of people you have to convince if you want to have any meaningful impact. And not just to cheat, but also keep quiet about it lest you get caught. What's that old Ben Franklin quote, three people can keep a secret but only if two of them are dead?
- vidanay 7y agoIt's also really easy to verify in parallel. Two or three separate reporters per jurisdiction phone in to physically separate tabulating centers, tabulating centers cross-check and verify at the end.