9 Oct
2015
9 Oct
'15
9:15 a.m.
On 10/09/2015 07:38 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
Very convenient for those who run the government that
runs the
election process.
In the state where I live the setup (by law, as I recall) is a nice
hybrid. Paper (mark sense) ballots, scanned by machine. But anyone
can look at a ballot and see what it says, and you can recount them
by hand if necessary. So the security of the counting machines is
not actually critical because they aren't the final authority.
We're mark-sense too, but with a key difference. We have what amounts
to a two-week voting period, with returned ballots sent by mail or
deposited in special drop-boxes (which, when not used for voting, are
used to collect tax payments). No election-day scramble, no trying to
find a polling place.
I miss the old system of voting in person, but the current one is much
more difficult to manipulate and saves money at the same time.
--Chuck