How hard are paper ballots? While sure Canada has a much smaller population our Federal elections are all paper. I guess it’s only a problem when you get rid of the staff and don’t actually want democracy.
A lot of us vote on machine, but it also prints a paper copy that is submitted as well. Because the copy is produced by machine, it can be encoded to be directly and accurately tabulated by machine initially, but also can be hand counted, if need be, later. Speaking as a software engineer, exclusively electronic voting is a fucking terrible idea for any number of reasons, like malice, incompetence, good old human error, etc. But we don’t do that. There is and should always be a paper trail to validate it.
I mean, you have 10X the scrutineers as well. It all scales.
The objections I’ve heard to it make as much sense as saying you can’t scale a high school student election to the size of Canada federal elections. Well, yes you can, obviously.
How hard are paper ballots? While sure Canada has a much smaller population our Federal elections are all paper. I guess it’s only a problem when you get rid of the staff and don’t actually want democracy.
A lot of us vote on machine, but it also prints a paper copy that is submitted as well. Because the copy is produced by machine, it can be encoded to be directly and accurately tabulated by machine initially, but also can be hand counted, if need be, later. Speaking as a software engineer, exclusively electronic voting is a fucking terrible idea for any number of reasons, like malice, incompetence, good old human error, etc. But we don’t do that. There is and should always be a paper trail to validate it.
I mean, you have 10X the scrutineers as well. It all scales.
The objections I’ve heard to it make as much sense as saying you can’t scale a high school student election to the size of Canada federal elections. Well, yes you can, obviously.