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A voting machine can produce a printed ballot which is scanned by a separate counting machine. This can be checked for consistency by the voter. Also, you can
by tcbawo 6y ago
A voting machine can produce a printed ballot which is scanned by a separate counting machine. This can be checked for consistency by the voter. Also, you can have more than one scanning machine to verify the ballots are counted properly. And you have a paper trail if a recount is necessary.
- mshook 6y agoSo the voter would not only "print" his own ballot but check the consistency? That's not what I call audit. Audit is supposed to be multiple pair of eyes during counting. Plus you'd possibly lose the anonymity of the vote if the voter did both (timestamping transactions and so on). If all counting machines are the same, how do you know they're not all wrong? Or not all tampered with? And even if they all give you the same results, how do you know it's actually correct or how do you decide to recount? You have no real way to: you have to count. So at that point you might as well have counted in the first place. Ideally you should have multiple vendors and make sure they all give the same results. But who's going to do that?