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Hand-counting.Hand-counting.Posted Oct 15, 2008 16:28 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)In reply to: Hand-counting. by drag Parent article: Video and photos show Linux booting on the Brazilian voting machines (BR-Linux.org)
Oh. And one more thing... Elections are run by people. People are stupid and flawed and make mistakes. Absolutely! In a paper-ballot, hand-counted system, there are many checks in place to detect mistakes or malice. The system has many people involved and most of them have an interest in assuring a fair outcome. With electronic voting machines, fraud can be perpetrated on a massive scale, by a very few people, in an undetectable way. People are stupid and flawed and make mistakes.. Including those people who write software. Maybe especially those people who write software. If a system cannot be understood by the vast majority of voters, or relies on technology most people don't understand, or can theoretically be subject to massive fraud, it is anti-democratic even if there are no actual flaws in a particular instance.
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