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Hand-counting.

Hand-counting.

Posted Oct 15, 2008 9:33 UTC (Wed) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032)
In reply to: Hand-counting. by drag
Parent article: Video and photos show Linux booting on the Brazilian voting machines (BR-Linux.org)

These are still reasonably common, but are falling out of favor, due to the average American's paranoia about the 2000 election fiasco. They are still the preferred machines in most other countries, however.

As far as I know, "most other countries" do proper hand counts. Could you please provide me with some data that you base your assertion on?


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Hand-counting.

Posted Oct 15, 2008 15:53 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Hrm.

Did I say that 'Most countries use DREs to run elections' or could of I meant that 'Most countries that use e-voting use DREs'?

I know this because the sort of machines that foreign governments purchase are almost exclusively paperless machines. I did not say that DRE is more popular then pure paper.

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