We spent millions on electronic voting machines in the early 2000s. Think one constituency might have gotten to use them once on a trial run. They’ve been dumped in a shed somewhere ever since cos they’re dodgy as fuck. Convicted terrorists being elected isn’t an especially rare occurrence here, we have abstentionist political parties who won’t even participate in elections and seemingly only exist to cause trouble, but even we won’t use electronic voting machines. We also show ID in order to cast a ballot.
FWIW all the electronic machines I've ever used, and this includes most of the states generate a paper ballot that the voter verifies and dumps in a box. The sketchy part is the counting and reporting.
And do they count the paper ballot or the machine? If they count the paper ballot what’s the point of the machine, and if they count the machine numbers what’s the point of the paper ballot (they’re hackable, that’s why we dumped ours I think)?
[–] irelandLost 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
We spent millions on electronic voting machines in the early 2000s. Think one constituency might have gotten to use them once on a trial run. They’ve been dumped in a shed somewhere ever since cos they’re dodgy as fuck. Convicted terrorists being elected isn’t an especially rare occurrence here, we have abstentionist political parties who won’t even participate in elections and seemingly only exist to cause trouble, but even we won’t use electronic voting machines. We also show ID in order to cast a ballot.
[–] bonghits4jeebus ago
FWIW all the electronic machines I've ever used, and this includes most of the states generate a paper ballot that the voter verifies and dumps in a box. The sketchy part is the counting and reporting.
[–] irelandLost ago
And do they count the paper ballot or the machine? If they count the paper ballot what’s the point of the machine, and if they count the machine numbers what’s the point of the paper ballot (they’re hackable, that’s why we dumped ours I think)?