Will F.D. People
bgrieser
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« on: December 12, 2004, 10:42:38 AM » |
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The problem with hand counted ballots is they are very, very prone to fraud.
In the old days, a crooked ballot counter could put a pencil lead under his fingernail. He could use the concealed lead to add a vote for his candidate to blank ballots. For ballots that voted for another candidate, he could spoil those ballots. In other words he could turn undervotes into votes for his guy and he could turn votes for the other guy into overvotes.
With modern ballots, the same thing applies. A crooked hand-counter could add punches to punch cards or mark optical ballots while counting them.
Personally I trust machines to count ballots a lot more than I trust people.
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