Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by 52-6F-62 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:19PM
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In the Ontario provincial elections we used a hybrid system. They ballots are paper following the same process you described, but they're first inserted into a machine that tallies the counts electronically and the paper record stored in case of discrepancies that might call for a hand count.
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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by codedokode on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:33PM
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Such scanning machines save the time of people counting votes (it takes at least several hours), but you cannot know if the machine hasn't been tampered with. To require re-couting the paper ballots you will need some kind of proof that the results are invalid.
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by greglindahl on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:00PM
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... you're describing the reason why people are calling for random audits of a subset of votes in every election.
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by gruez on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:01PM
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>you will need some kind of proof that the results are invalid.
are discrepancies between exit polls and election result valid reason?
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by ascagnel_ on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:28PM
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Exit polls are considered non-scientific for a variety of reasons.
A better option is human-readable paper ballots, as you can manually compile results from batches of ballots and run stop-loss audits on them.
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by minedwiz on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:22PM
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King County, Washington does something similar:
https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/elections/about-us/security...