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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by bluejekyll on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:36PM (#14921740)
One thing that I think is overlooked with digital is the ease of it being replicated and backed up. Paper ballots can be destroyed.

I really like the systems where there is an original easy to use paper ballot, that gets fed into a scanner for immediate counting with the ballot being stored securely in a box below the machine. It seems that the ballot could also have a scanned image stored for posterity.

At that point all the digital information can be immediately backed-up, replicated, and so on. It seems like it's the best of both worlds...

Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by dublinben on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:46PM (#14921877)
There is no legal value to storing the individual ballots after an election result has been certified.
Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by bluejekyll on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:59PM (#14922013)
Thanks, you're right... but at least until that date.