Reply #16: some points... [View All]

[kcwayne]

The physical ballot as a primary record is irrelevant to an audit system since you cannot trace it back to its source and validate it.

The voter does not really see what goes into the system with a paper ballot. The ballot is read electronically or mechanically, and these systems have the same problem that you are attributing to computer based systems.

Ballots read by humans can/are easily influenced with cash, ideology, malice, or judicial decisions.

An electronic system could just as easily provide the feedback to the voter. At any rate, I have never been able to read the hollerith cards and ascertain whether my vote was punched correctly, so this piece of paper has always been worthless to me.

It would require alot more expense and a great deal more sophistication to bribe a commissioner to use a different program than to simply bribe them with cash or ideology to subvert a manual proceedure. Software can have security built in that would make it practically impossible to replace it with counterfit algorithms (one key, drop Microsoft as the OS!!!)