Comment by icantevenhold
6 hours ago
Nothing is unhackable though is it?
You just need to find the right balance.
In my country we still rely on a paper process - which is very hard to tamper with but also has a bunch of problems - recently we needed to repeat local state elections because of such problems including shortages of ballot papers, unusually long queues to vote, ballots being delivered to the wrong locations, and in some cases voters being turned away. Many of these problems go away with digital voting - but then you have other issues.
I don’t think a perfect solution can exist
Those problems can also be solved with a better organised electoral commission. Here in Australia we sometimes have long lines at polling stations, but I’ve never heard of any of those other issues occurring.
Yea and it’s not like they have this problem every time. My state is also notoriously chaotic and this is the first time (in my memory) it happened. Just wanted to point out that paper is not perfect either
Paper ballots definitely have security problems too, it's just harder to compromise an election with many polling locations if it uses paper.
E.g., a counter can put a bit of pencil lead under a fingernail and mark overvotes on ballots they don't like, thus causing them to be adjudicated or not counted.
This is in some contexts solved by having different ballots per choice. In Norway you go into a booth and select the ballot of your preferred party, fold it (they all look the same on the outside) and drop it in the box.