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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by jeltz on Thursday August 03, 2017 @09:21PM (#14925610)
We count them twice by hand here in Sweden and we get the preliminary result just a few hours after the polls close, so I do not see why one has to use a machine.
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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by BurningFrog on Friday August 04, 2017 @01:49AM (#14926607)
> I do not see why one has to use a machine.

One reason is that Americans vote a lot more than Swedes. Here in California I have probably ~100 elections to vote in for each I had in Sweden.

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