From Australia:You can't ask every scrutineer to know the ins and outs of every chip.If we rely on electronic vote counting,you rely on some system engineer knowing the ins and outs of the voting machine.Even if you see a copy of the software installed on the voting machine,how do you know every copy of that software is the same?It makes me wonder what's so compelling about electronic voting that it would override transparency |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)