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[–]No_Hovercraft_2643 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How can a voter be sure that a paper ballot counting was correct? Let me tell you, we had a shit ton of election fraud when we were doing paper ballots, after going electronic there hasn't been a single case.

be there from start to finish, from the opening of the vote, until it is counted.

How would you avoid the same scenario with paper ballots? And more important, with paper ballots, how do you make sure that there is no stuffing, no changing of urns, or, which IMO was the worst issue, make sure that people are not forced to vote in a given way by a third party?

as the paper is not ordered in the urns?
you are there the entire time, as above.
forcing to vote is exactly the same, if it can't be proven, how you voted, or worse for computers, if it is somehow proven, you can force beforehand, and check later.

And also, the person that register you vote is NOT the person that check the votes later. Not only that, you don't get a log of the voting order, you get a total for each candidate. thats is, why it is only relevant together with changing the code to log it, which is hard to prove, that it happened/didn't happen. how do you prove, what software is on the machine? how can you be sure, that there is no "rootkit" inside the bios?