I'll always be suspicious of computer voting. I'll also be suspicious of electronic counting machines, especially if they are the only method of counting used. The only thing you need to fix an election result is a datastick with a software update and access to the storage room.
But at least there's paper ballots that can be counted by hand.
Not because a person can be trusted, they can't be when there's a definite incentive to give skewed results. But then nobody trusts 1 person. That's why there's more than 1 person counting, and counting is done publicly. A secret is easily kept with 1 person, keeping a secret with 20 is much harder.
But at least there's paper ballots that can be counted by hand.
Not because a person can be trusted, they can't be when there's a definite incentive to give skewed results. But then nobody trusts 1 person. That's why there's more than 1 person counting, and counting is done publicly. A secret is easily kept with 1 person, keeping a secret with 20 is much harder.