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Re:What Is Voter Satisfaction Efficiency? by clolege on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:38PM (#27626895)
Key word (electronically)

To me, any voting method dependent on software is a non-starter. A full paper trail is much easier to audit

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Re:What Is Voter Satisfaction Efficiency? by kybernetikos on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:57AM (#27629625)
The Condorcet methods do not require software to count up - you can easily replicate the results by hand on paper, it's just that there's such a lot to do it'll probably take you a while. In practice, you're going to want to count up electronically and then probably do a random sample by hand to check.
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Re:What Is Voter Satisfaction Efficiency? by clolege on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:49AM (#27631469)
Right - you have to count up with software or it will take you a while.

To me, it's a hard choice that cardinal systems don't force you to make.

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Re:What Is Voter Satisfaction Efficiency? by kybernetikos on Friday June 25, 2021 @05:24PM (#27636460)
Maybe. In most of the US aren't they moving to computerised counting even of the simple ballots currently in use?
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