11-06-2012, 02:41 PM
SAm3-
Yes. A Paper trail is required. Only to be used in event of a challenge. And what gets audited is based on local election boards, etc....
What you need to know before getting all excited is:
1- Ever local election site has at least two election judges, one from each main party (and may have judges from other parties as well).
2- Vote counting and tabulating operations are also overseen by partisan judges as well.
3- In the last 10 years, there have been more proven cases of in person voter fraud than cases of proven electronic voting fraud. (And not many of the in person cases either !)
Are there crappy systems and shoddy software ? Of course. The systems have to last 10 years, which is the equivalent of a hundred years in Internet Time. But active evil attempts at fraud ? I don't see it.
Yes. A Paper trail is required. Only to be used in event of a challenge. And what gets audited is based on local election boards, etc....
What you need to know before getting all excited is:
1- Ever local election site has at least two election judges, one from each main party (and may have judges from other parties as well).
2- Vote counting and tabulating operations are also overseen by partisan judges as well.
3- In the last 10 years, there have been more proven cases of in person voter fraud than cases of proven electronic voting fraud. (And not many of the in person cases either !)
Are there crappy systems and shoddy software ? Of course. The systems have to last 10 years, which is the equivalent of a hundred years in Internet Time. But active evil attempts at fraud ? I don't see it.