Comment by logifail
3 years ago
> This is a great example of why electronic voting is important and can help secure democracy.
If those in power are against change, I wouldn't want to have to put my trust in electronic voting if I was hoping for change.
I was left with the impression that it is the paper records in this story that led to the unravelling of an attempt to forge the results.
Long live paper ballots.
> I was left with the impression that it is the paper records in this story that led to the unravelling of an attempt to forge the results.
The manual tallying of paper records is what lead to the attempt to forge the results in the first place. If the results were electronically tallied to generate an official result, then they wouldn't need to recount the whole election to verify the result, just doing a statistically significant random sampling of the polls to recount would be enough.
> If the results were electronically tallied to generate an official result
Electronic voting doesn't make bad politicians less bad. In this instance, the bad guys were prepared to deliberately remove CCTV so when they sent their goons out at night to shoot protestors there would be no evidence.
"Electronic tallies" are never going to give a free and fair election if those in power are prepared to go that far. Safer to stick with paper ballots and election observers equipped with Mark I eyeballs.
How do you recount electronic-only elections?
By looking at the receipts printed by the ballot machines.
Ballot machines print either a final tally at the end of the day, or print every single vote and automatically drop it into a physical ballot, depending on the threat model of the country in question. Either way the you have partial or total recount.
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