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This seems very naive. 1) even if so, can I check my vote recorded at the district vote collection center is the same as the vote I meant to send? More import
by effie 2y ago
This seems very naive.
1) even if so, can I check my vote recorded at the district vote collection center is the same as the vote I meant to send?
More importantly, can I check the resulting numbers announced on TV/radio/online are the same as the sum of all legitimate votes, and not influenced by illegitimate votes, and not doctored?
This is all impossible, in any system of voting.
- tsimionescu 2y agoIt is very much possible with paper voting, or at least you can personally inspect every step of the way in the process for a small slice, and you can understand how others like you verify things in other slices. Ultimately, you do need to rely on your co-citizens to help verify that the elections are valid (in a simple to verify system, i.e. paper voting), just like you need to rely on them to vote coherently and to abide by the results of the election.
- effie 2y agoI agree the believability is much better with paper trail. Paper creates hard-to-forge records that can be checked later, electronic communication is too complicated and hard to audit, especially origins of electronic records.