No need to carry an ID card if you can look up each voter's face.
Electronic voting systems were supposedly created to prevent the hanging chad problem. But all we actually needed was a way to properly punch the cards instead of relying upon people to do it manually.
Card punch machines have been around forever. Open source software running on a PC with a card punch attached is all we really needed. And you can count the votes to double check the count of the cards. But you don't have to stop relying on the physical cards.
You could even have machines at the polling place that voters could use to verify that their ballot was properly encoded before they turn it in. A PC with a punch card reader running open source software.
Why do we need to use card punch machines? Here in Missouri, we optically scan inked ballots. Inkavote is the name of the system. Why bother with punching out the card?
In Norway we just have different voter cards for each party in the election. So you go into the voting booth, select your party's card and fold it. Then verify you are you with the election officials and put your folded card in the ballot box.
Elections in the US are organized around specific offices and candidates, not parties. A general election ballot might include 20 offices and several ballot questions.
Electronic voting systems were supposedly created to prevent the hanging chad problem. But all we actually needed was a way to properly punch the cards instead of relying upon people to do it manually.
Card punch machines have been around forever. Open source software running on a PC with a card punch attached is all we really needed. And you can count the votes to double check the count of the cards. But you don't have to stop relying on the physical cards.
You could even have machines at the polling place that voters could use to verify that their ballot was properly encoded before they turn it in. A PC with a punch card reader running open source software.
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