Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems
by rawfan on Saturday September 10, 2016 @07:03PM
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In Germany it's all paper and actual people doing the counting. I know Germany is not as big as the US, but it's not a small country. We usually have the first results at 6pm on voting day and the final results usually don't differ much from the first results.
Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems
by Steuard on Monday August 29, 2016 @02:56PM
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That doesn't really help, though. With "marks on paper" voting, you don't have to deal with the hanging chad problem, but you get whole crops of people who don't fill the bubbles completely, or who partially mark two different bubbles, or a whole litany of other potential ambiguities.
I still agree that paper isn't vulnerable to the mass-scale undetectable vote-rigging that electronic machines have the potential to be! But it does have its own weaknesses: people who decided to switch to electronic definitely had credible reasons in mind at the time.
At this point, there is no reason not to use actual paper. Computer scanning and counting has gotten really good.