I agree, I live in a country that still uses papel ballouts (Portugal if you’re curious) and on election day representatives from.diferent parties, volunteers, and government officials count the votes by hand, the whole process is bureaucratic, time consuming, and incredibly complex, but that’s exactly what makes it almost foll proof, there is no way you can alter votes in a meaningful way without a lot of people noticing, and even if by some miracle you did, the very next day all the votes get re counted in front of a judge and other set of volunteers chosen randomly.
Different kind of complex 😅 to be honest is more complicated than complex. Believe it or not it is done the old fashion way, we use string and lacker to seal the envelops like in medieval times, and the protocols dictate that all present must sign and write their recount of events. It’s a lot of fun and paper
In the Netherlands we had switched to electronic voting in the past, but we switched back to paper after some very serious security flaws were pointed out. These days there is some discussion on whether electronic counting of paper ballots should be allowed, but at least there is still a paper trail in that case and you could hypothetically double check everything by hand.
Some things are meat to be time consuming and hard. You cannot hurry things like learning or maturity, our current world has convince us that faster is always better, but that is not always the case. I always volunteer for voting counting and despite the fact that it takes from 7am to 10 pm on a Sunday I enjoy doing it, you feel like you are part of the cogs of democracy, doing your part to ensure the democracy works as intended, like you take part In something greater than yourself, you set aside your political filiation and do your part
I think using electronic counting (of paper ballots) can be an acceptable way to speed up how soon we get to know what the result will likely be after the polls close. But it is important that there always happens a manual count, and that that manual count should ultimately be the answer we trust.
I agree, I live in a country that still uses papel ballouts (Portugal if you’re curious) and on election day representatives from.diferent parties, volunteers, and government officials count the votes by hand, the whole process is bureaucratic, time consuming, and incredibly complex, but that’s exactly what makes it almost foll proof, there is no way you can alter votes in a meaningful way without a lot of people noticing, and even if by some miracle you did, the very next day all the votes get re counted in front of a judge and other set of volunteers chosen randomly.
If you think vote counting is conplex, just wait until you hear about embedded microcontrollers
Different kind of complex 😅 to be honest is more complicated than complex. Believe it or not it is done the old fashion way, we use string and lacker to seal the envelops like in medieval times, and the protocols dictate that all present must sign and write their recount of events. It’s a lot of fun and paper
In the Netherlands we had switched to electronic voting in the past, but we switched back to paper after some very serious security flaws were pointed out. These days there is some discussion on whether electronic counting of paper ballots should be allowed, but at least there is still a paper trail in that case and you could hypothetically double check everything by hand.
Some things are meat to be time consuming and hard. You cannot hurry things like learning or maturity, our current world has convince us that faster is always better, but that is not always the case. I always volunteer for voting counting and despite the fact that it takes from 7am to 10 pm on a Sunday I enjoy doing it, you feel like you are part of the cogs of democracy, doing your part to ensure the democracy works as intended, like you take part In something greater than yourself, you set aside your political filiation and do your part
I think using electronic counting (of paper ballots) can be an acceptable way to speed up how soon we get to know what the result will likely be after the polls close. But it is important that there always happens a manual count, and that that manual count should ultimately be the answer we trust.