The USPS is in the Constitution. And it must be run by the Government.
Unless we want to amend to remove it from service, having it deliver votes is a perfectly fine use of an excellent service the public benefits from daily.
Actually, Oregon elections can be 100 percent verified. Every single ballot is available for recount activities, which can be done manually, under court and multiple party supervision.
Audits are performed and the stats on these and margins of error are well understood. We do use electronic counting, and where those do not match audit records, work is performed until they do.
There isn't a fully transparent electronic system, without also personally identifying voters to their votes.
I realize you guys do it differently. That's fine. In the US, we do not link voters to votes and we have strong reasons for that.
Frankly, I've always maintained e-votes are possible to do in a trustworthy way if we surrender anonymity.
I don't see that happening in the US. So long as that is true, we really do need to record voter intent in such a way that it can be used directly for the tally and reviewed under the public eye.
Which means e-voting is not trustworthy in the US. VBM is trustworthy, and it delivers very high and consistent turnout rates too.
That's another difference. You guys use mandatory voting. We don't. I personally wouldn't mind if we did, but we don't.
E-voting really hasn't done us any good on turnout as the machines, placement, performance, record keeping and a host of other factors make it a bigger mess than ballots currently are.
VBM sidesteps nearly all of those problems nicely. Every year, another district or another state picks it up because it works.
Unless we want to amend to remove it from service, having it deliver votes is a perfectly fine use of an excellent service the public benefits from daily.
Actually, Oregon elections can be 100 percent verified. Every single ballot is available for recount activities, which can be done manually, under court and multiple party supervision.
Audits are performed and the stats on these and margins of error are well understood. We do use electronic counting, and where those do not match audit records, work is performed until they do.
There isn't a fully transparent electronic system, without also personally identifying voters to their votes.
I realize you guys do it differently. That's fine. In the US, we do not link voters to votes and we have strong reasons for that.
Frankly, I've always maintained e-votes are possible to do in a trustworthy way if we surrender anonymity.
I don't see that happening in the US. So long as that is true, we really do need to record voter intent in such a way that it can be used directly for the tally and reviewed under the public eye.
Which means e-voting is not trustworthy in the US. VBM is trustworthy, and it delivers very high and consistent turnout rates too.
That's another difference. You guys use mandatory voting. We don't. I personally wouldn't mind if we did, but we don't.
E-voting really hasn't done us any good on turnout as the machines, placement, performance, record keeping and a host of other factors make it a bigger mess than ballots currently are.
VBM sidesteps nearly all of those problems nicely. Every year, another district or another state picks it up because it works.