Voting machines (was The Internet of criminal things)

Posted Sep 24, 2015 20:13 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Voting machines (was The Internet of criminal things) by tzafrir
Parent article: The Internet of criminal things

> And then you need to securely get the ballots physically to a safe place for keeping (to allow re-count).

With voting machines you: - either have to do the same thing in a possibly more technical and demanding way; - or you don't even have anything at all you can re-count.

From an counting mistake perspective ballot boxes are an "analog" system, meaning errors are negligible and don't matter except for the rare cases where the vote is very tight.