re: #52 zelnaga

How were the ballots being counted, anyway? If they were being hand counted, having a few hundred errors amongst millions upon millions of ballots doesn’t seem all that bad. It wouldn’t be a problem, either, if a candidate had won by a large margin, but when it’s as close as this election was, it kinda is a problem.

Personally, I think voting machines are still the way to go. Diebold’s implementation may have left something to be desired, but that doesn’t mean the whole notion of a voting machine is a bad one.

Machine voting has the entire issue of software / hardware security and verification. The larger issue is voting record.

With electronic voting we have no original record of what the voter did, only an electronic record in a data base. With a paper ballot we can go back and look at the original and recount the original. Not something record and stored by software which may be suspect itself.