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You're right, there is absolutely no reason to use voting machines. Elections in other countries work perfectly fine with paper ballots.
by School-Cotton 1y ago
You're right, there is absolutely no reason to use voting machines. Elections in other countries work perfectly fine with paper ballots.
- bell-cot 1y agoIIR, the US's huge push to (computerized) machine voting was after the 2000 election, when Florida's Democrats demonstrated just how badly they could screw up with paper ballots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida#Palm_Beach_County's_butterfly_ballot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia... And of course, the magic cure for "we f*cked up at the simple job of doing X" is always "let's try to do something far more complex than X instead".
- ekr____ 1y agoOther countries tend to have only one or two contests, which makes counting easier. In the US, it's very common to have 10s of contests on a ballot, and it's much more efficient to count via optical scan. You can still have high confidence in this case if you do a risk-limiting audit.
- School-Cotton 1y ago> In the US, it's very common to have 10s of contests on a ballot, and it's much more efficient to count via optical scan. Then hire 100x the number of poll workers as are needed in other countries. The cost is still trivial relative to the importance.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoHa, you want America to focus on quality over cheaping out the working class.