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Authored by: stegu on Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 04:10 PM EDT |
Your response and a few others above it reinforce
my point: why, really, does the US insist on machine
counting? Who wants it, and why? It can't be true
that people honestly can't wait for a few hours for
something as important as the result of a national
election. Is it that the desire to make election day
into good TV overshadows the need to do it right?
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- Exactly - Authored by: PJ on Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 04:55 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 23 2012 @ 04:11 PM EDT |
>Any voting station has a limited number of voters.
The memories.
I've forgotten how many registered voters were assigned to the polling station.
By noon, all of the registered voters had done so. By 12:05, all of the votes
had been tallied, and triple checked.
The polling station still had to remain open until an hour after sunset, to
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Authored by: darkonc on Saturday, August 25 2012 @ 04:27 PM EDT |
In canada, we use the Paper ballot hand counted for federal and provincial (=~
state) votes.. Pretty simple, but there's only one (or two) things to vote
on.
For municipal voting, we use paper ballots with optical scanners for a
more complicated vote. Thus, the results are available almost instantly and we
have voter-verified paper ballots for verification and
recount. --- Powerful, committed communication. Touching the jewel within
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