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Paper ballots tend to work. There have been significant screwups though: http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2014/02/wa-senate-re-election-what-happens-next.htm

• graeme 12y ago
  >Given that we're generally happy to trust online banking, my feeling is that there is a way to make electronic voting secure enough. Where you want to draw that line is subjective though! I don't think this is the right analogy. * Citizens constantly monitor their bank accounts * Citizens are *extremely* upset if an error harms them. * There are procedures for reversing errors. * There is a legal system for recourse if errors aren't reversed. If a party wins an election fraudulently, and gains power, we don't have a good, non-traumatic mechanism for correcting that. Changing $15,000 back to $18,742 is an easy, painless process. Replacing the ruling party is anything but.
• jacques_chester 12y ago
  Note that the screw up was easily observed and there was a mechanism in place to cope. It was also the first time in approximately 100 years that the recovery mechanism was needed. Show me one system -- one computer system ever -- with a proved, actual (not projected) MTBF of 100 years.