Voting machines (was The Internet of criminal things)

Posted Sep 25, 2015 3:51 UTC (Fri) by edgewood (subscriber, #1123)
In reply to: Voting machines (was The Internet of criminal things) by raven667
Parent article: The Internet of criminal things

Well, the Electoral College meets on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, which means somewhere between Dec 13 (Dec 1 is a Wednesday) and Dec 19 (Dec 1 is a Thursday). So the results will be needed by then at the latest.

But the bigger problem is that the US has a lot more separate elections per ballot than I think other places with parliamentary systems do. See http://v.gd/7cIVRX for the *front* of a recent election in North Carolina. There are 14 elections on the *front* of the ballot. I couldn't find a good image of the back, but I recall that many or more there.

Voting machines (was The Internet of criminal things)

Posted Sep 26, 2015 15:46 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> But the bigger problem is that the US has a lot more separate elections per ballot than I think other places with parliamentary systems do

Maybe an interesting trade-off could be "hardware assisted tallying", where a scanner operates slowly enough that anyone in the room can keep an eye on it.