I could live with that, I think, although you could probably nudge things a bit without getting a manual recount using the receipts, useful if it's close and your side has access to the system. There's nothing to say that what it puts in the electronic tally matches what's in on the receipt.
What worries me most about the electronic voting machines is that they're proprietary and the owner of one of the companies was on record as saying he'd deliver the vote for one party. Open-source, properly audited before and after the poll, in the presence of a nominated rep for each candidate (or party), with logging to a separate machine, is the only way to go to prevent that. OK, someone might find a hack but hopefully it would be fixed before use and if not, at least people could see why they might need to re-run things.
I like the UK's simple approach to things, but I've also had to deal with a US ballot paper so I can see why that might not work so well. Vote for more positions, get less overall security and traceability. I'm not sure what happens in the US if you turn up to vote and discover that you already have. I know how it's handled in the UK.
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Date: 2019-05-06 10:17 pm (UTC)What worries me most about the electronic voting machines is that they're proprietary and the owner of one of the companies was on record as saying he'd deliver the vote for one party. Open-source, properly audited before and after the poll, in the presence of a nominated rep for each candidate (or party), with logging to a separate machine, is the only way to go to prevent that. OK, someone might find a hack but hopefully it would be fixed before use and if not, at least people could see why they might need to re-run things.
I like the UK's simple approach to things, but I've also had to deal with a US ballot paper so I can see why that might not work so well. Vote for more positions, get less overall security and traceability. I'm not sure what happens in the US if you turn up to vote and discover that you already have. I know how it's handled in the UK.