[LINK] Electronic Voting

Marghanita da Cruz marghanita at ramin.com.au
Fri Nov 17 14:20:33 AEDT 2006


Howard Lowndes wrote:
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> You're going to extremes.  How do we know that, under the present 
> system, once the ballot papers have got into the electoral office they 
> have not also entered some virtual black box; don't forget that the 
> results from the tally room are not the official results, they are only 
> there for the convenience of the media.  There has to be some degree of 
> trust in any system.
<snip>
My understanding about the paper based system is each of the candidates 
provide a scrutineer....who looks at the physical bits of paper.

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