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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by specialist on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:21PM (#14922863)
Tabulating ballots as they are received (at central count) is a terrible idea.

The gold standard is precinct-based tabulation of paper ballots, counted the moment the polls close.

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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by bluejekyll on Thursday August 03, 2017 @06:25PM (#14924511)
That's exactly what I said, the tabulation at at central office would be to verify precinct counts. I'm not sure I see an issue with multiple counts, if they don't come out the same then the system should be reviewed for issues.
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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by jeltz on Thursday August 03, 2017 @09:15PM (#14925575)
Sweden does two manual counts, one at the precinct and one by central election authority. The second count is the real one, but if there are too large discrepancies they would be investigate.
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