Timeline for Is automated and digitized ballot processing inherently more dangerous than manual pencil and paper?
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| Nov 10, 2020 at 1:13 | comment | added | Steve Sether | @vk5tu In MN, we have results within hours. The ballot is put directly in the machine, which counts the votes, and validates that there's no over-vote. You can't get much faster than that. It also offers the advantage of not having to rely on one person to count them, who could cheat. The problem in the US is largely each state decides how to conduct an election, and chooses the system. | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 0:48 | comment | added | vk5tu | The problem with electronic scanning of paper votes is that counting them -- essentially placing them in one pile or another -- is faster. Australia counts by hand its votes for the House of Representatives in one short evening, when most outcomes are known, and one day. | |
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| Nov 9, 2020 at 22:41 | history | answered | Steve Sether | CC BY-SA 4.0 |