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Re:To Know If the Election Was Hacked, Look at the Ballots by Scea91 on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @02:26PM (#13025067)
I am actually from Europe so I don't know the specific details of your voting system. Mail-in ballots are of course a weakness, but it doesn't mean that we should further weaken the current system.

Here in Czech Republic we receive voting tickets by mail about a week before election and have to physically put them into a box behing a curtain in a voting room. I also see weakness here, and don't understand why we receive voting tickets by mail, because it allows you family relatives filter your tickets. Better system would be if the voting tickets were available only in the voting room.

Still it is better than web app. There are more security concerns with online voting, you can read more about it here: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/15417/online-go...

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Re:To Know If the Election Was Hacked, Look at the Ballots by anigbrowl on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @05:12PM (#13026203)
It's worth remembering (for non-US residents) that US voters don't just vote on a few legislative and executive candidates, but on a very large number of them. The California voter information booklet about who is running and what issues the voters can express a preference on regularly runs to over 100 pages. A completed ballot can easily involve >50 different decisions - hence the ubiquity of machine counting in the USA.
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