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"Can be" or "will be"?

• Spivak 6y ago
  I mean voting is a very human affair. If you don't trust the humans to count the votes to verify the results then you couldn't trust them to count normal paper ballots either.
  • mshook 6y ago
    The way it's done here in France is it's just random voters who offer to do the recount (usually after being asked because it's pretty boring haha). And you don't count alone, there are people with you who count with you and who double check what you do. It works the following way. You legally must have: - one person who opens the envelope containing the ballot and unfolds it - one who reads out loud the ballot - at least two who write down what the person above said And all that is supervised by the same people who were manning the polling station (at least 4 them). So it becomes a lot harder not to trust humans when you have at least 4 persons who saw the ballot and a couple others observing if everything is being done as expected.
  • jcynix 6y ago
    In Germany you can watch the local committees while they are counting. it's an open affair. And you'll hear the numbers as the results are reported by phone to the next level. Which allows anyone who was present during the counting to audit the numbers when they are published afterwards. And yes, I did watch every now and then.