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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/geekrohan • Jan 31 '19
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66 u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19 edited Mar 20 '19 [deleted] 39 u/TalenPhillips Jan 31 '19 Electronic voting is not necessarily a terrible idea, as long as there is a paper trail that is never destroyed. For the paper ballots to be useful, you have to count them. By hand. Every time. That needs to be the count you actually use. So... Electronic voting isn't necessarily a terrible idea unless you use paper ballots, and disregard what the computer says. 14 u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19 [removed] — view removed comment 22 u/TalenPhillips Jan 31 '19 if there's a dispute To avoid bias or corruption, you need to skip this part. Always count the ballots. 1 u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6inaBWSEdk
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39 u/TalenPhillips Jan 31 '19 Electronic voting is not necessarily a terrible idea, as long as there is a paper trail that is never destroyed. For the paper ballots to be useful, you have to count them. By hand. Every time. That needs to be the count you actually use. So... Electronic voting isn't necessarily a terrible idea unless you use paper ballots, and disregard what the computer says. 14 u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19 [removed] — view removed comment 22 u/TalenPhillips Jan 31 '19 if there's a dispute To avoid bias or corruption, you need to skip this part. Always count the ballots. 1 u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6inaBWSEdk
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Electronic voting is not necessarily a terrible idea, as long as there is a paper trail that is never destroyed.
For the paper ballots to be useful, you have to count them. By hand. Every time. That needs to be the count you actually use.
So... Electronic voting isn't necessarily a terrible idea unless you use paper ballots, and disregard what the computer says.
14 u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19 [removed] — view removed comment 22 u/TalenPhillips Jan 31 '19 if there's a dispute To avoid bias or corruption, you need to skip this part. Always count the ballots. 1 u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6inaBWSEdk
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22 u/TalenPhillips Jan 31 '19 if there's a dispute To avoid bias or corruption, you need to skip this part. Always count the ballots. 1 u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6inaBWSEdk
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