Quote from: JohnnyBTCSeed on March 17, 2014, 04:00:19 PM

Then apparently we're all fucked. Cause in the current system, votes get flipped, lost, changed, etc.

I was kinda hoping that at our point in human civilization we have learned how to make voting work. Man I feel like humans are dumb animals who can blow shit up but not count worth a damn.

Canada uses the KISS system:

paper ballots/pencils
Sealed ballot boxes
Manual counting

We get the election results within about 6 hours, barring judicial recounts.

Granted, Canada uses a relatively simple First Past the Post voting system.

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I guess let me ask a question. How anonymous is the current voting system. Don't the ballots have a bar code on them. Don't the polling admins known what day and approx what time you voted. They check my id when I arrive and hand me an "anonymous ballot". How about absentee, they mail you a ballot, no tracking there?

In Canada, the serial number is torn from the ballot before going into the ballot box. While it may be possible to figure out the order of votes, actually trying to do so is illegal. Because two people count the ballots, trying anything funny would get noticed.