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The ACT is not Australia. It's one of the territories and the ACT electoral commission has dabbled with electronic voting for a long time. Speaking frankly, AC
by jacques_chester 12y ago
The ACT is not Australia. It's one of the territories and the ACT electoral commission has dabbled with electronic voting for a long time.
Speaking frankly, ACT elections don't matter; it's basically a town council.
Federal elections and state elections are actually important.
- vetler 12y agoAha, thanks for the clarification! Also found this: http://www.governmentnews.com.au/2015/02/electronic-vote-counting-one-step-closer/ http://www.governmentnews.com.au/2015/02/electronic-vote-cou... Interesting that Australia does not scan paper ballots yet, the amount of manual work must be enormous.
- jacques_chester 12y ago> the amount of manual work must be enormous. This is a feature, not a bug. An "indicative count" is available on the night of an election, and final results take a few weeks. A few weeks versus extremely high assurance of a legitimate count is an excellent tradeoff, in my view. Who is hurt by the delay? Nobody. It's already expected and accounted for. As a profession we love benchmark porn -- latency! throughput! TPS! BPS! -- but optimisation is pointless if you undermine key guarantees. It's pointless to have an instant count if it can't be trusted. And the sheer unwieldiness of a paper ballot drastically amplifies the difficulty of subverting it.