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Seems almost paradoxical but yeah physical voting is the way to go https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs

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As others have said, the scalability ideal is to have electric/mechanical counters but with paper ballots. Keeps the paper trail for double checking, but also allows poll workers to deliver quick initial results to everyone breathing down their necks.

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Pretty sure that’s how we do it up on Canada. I think random samples are hand-counted to make sure the machine count is accurate. There’s early voting too so not all just in one day.

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I’ve never used a machine in 40 years of voting in Canada. And if they show up, I won’t use them.

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Well here in Germany we have about 40-50 million votes to count in a federal election. Right when the booths close we get an exit poll that is already pretty close. After 1-2 hours there are extrapolations that are even closer and next morning, there is usually the certified result. All on paper, counted by hand.

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Unfortunately the software we use(d?) to transmitt and add up the votes is abysmal:

https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2017/pc-wahl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J61-t3OJKg

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3 points

My state does Scantron style ballots. You fill in the little ovals and put it into a machine to be counted.

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4 points

Did Musk figure out people will always rather want the opposite of what he is yapping about?

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