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Canada also uses hand counted paper ballots and it works great. There's no need to make large-scale voting electronic, and I'd never trust it without major soci
by bdamm 7mo ago
Canada also uses hand counted paper ballots and it works great. There's no need to make large-scale voting electronic, and I'd never trust it without major social institutions in place that can provide the kind of oversight we have with good old paper ballots.
- hootz 7mo agoBrazil uses fully electronic voting and it works great.
- rickpm 7mo agoNo, it doesn't. Every single election bunch of weird stuff happening regardless of the winner. Paper ballots are much better.
- diego_moita 7mo ago> bunch of weird stuff happening Every election has "bunch of weird stuff happening" because every election has losers that don't like to lose, either with paper or e-vote. To use a soccer analogy, it is like the losing team that blames the referee. The ones complaining about "bunch of weird stuff happening" are just playing Trump.
- matheusmoreira 7mo agoHard not to "blame the referee" when the supreme judge-kings in charge of the electronic voting system are openly partisan to say the least. In fact, the issue of fair elections in Brazil has become background noise because of these so called "referees". They have usurped so much power elections are just theater at this point. It doesn't matter who wins because in the end it's the judge-kings who rule the country. There's no point in even discussing the matter until their fall.
- xorcist 7mo agoThat's perhaps not the best example of a stable democracy. Lots of people in Brazil mistrust the voting system, and they were pretty close to a coup d'etat after their last election, with polticians thrown in jail and so on.