Reply #21: At the time of the recall election, Venezuela got rid of all its [View All]

[I_am_Spartacus]

ES&S (IIRC) machines and bought the machines of a small Florida company which operated this way:

You make your selections electronically, a paper ballot is printed, the voter sees the ballot, if they agree with what they see, the voter pushes a button which drops the ballot into a locked box. The machine electronically records the vote. If they don't, the ballot goes into the trash.

At the end of the day, all the machines phone in their tabulations and the results are calculated instantly. The boxes of printed ballots are available for auditing.

The specific problem Venezuela was trying to solve was that with other methods of voting, the most common form of corruption was that one side would see that a candidate was doing well in precinct, and then ballots would start disappearing from that precinct. Primarily, Venezuela wanted instant counting and tabulation. The next concern was auditability.

I read about that at Venezuelanalysis.com (and they government has a website that explains the voting process). I saw that at the time of the recall election. It's probably in the archives there.