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This seems like a simple problem to solve if all the ballots are simply public. The voter isn’t relevant, only the full suite of ballot data. Then each campaig
by koolba 4y ago
This seems like a simple problem to solve if all the ballots are simply public. The voter isn’t relevant, only the full suite of ballot data.
Then each campaign can run their own cross check to ensure the tally is performed per the actual rules. At the end of the day it’s the votes that matter, not the voter.
- specialist 4y agoI support releasing the ballots. Something like "time bounded privacy". So maybe a week or two after polls close. Or as part of the canvassing board's election certification process. To the best of my knowledge, throughout the USA all the election materials are destroyed in short order. Which nicely moot continued, ongoing debate. One old-timey justification was to make the certification final, giving the public some certainty in the results, rightly or wrongly, so they'd accept the outcome and move on. Well. We're way past that now. Perhaps greater (utter) transparency will calm everyone down again.