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<div class="gmail_quote">There is no problem with having a
machine scan the completed ballot to make counting easier.
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<div>paper ballot is still the authoritative vote, and can
be manually recounted if needed. We do have <br>
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<div>those in a minority of the elections we have
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<p>Actually, having ballot counting machines, even with paper
backup, requires me to trust not my machine.<br>
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<p>I want us to have higher standards.</p>
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<p>Imagine the following. There is a poll about whatever, not
necessarily elections. Pollster just gives cryptographic material:
its a registration phase. The rest is the same, like in voting
process. I click on my device, in privacy of my device. I'll be
less inclined to hide my choice (aka polls in USA 2016). I will be
able to check that polling organization has counted my answer
correctly. With raw input numbers, they'll have to show the rest
of math to be credible.</p>
<p>You may think, okay, USA 2016, whatever ... . But. Polls are used
as a propaganda weapon.</p>
<p>In Belarus, no one is allowed to do polling about specified
issues without explicit permission of governing body. That
president in Belarus came with majority in first, probably two or
three elections. There were five already. Official polling has
blinded people from realizing that majority of country has
shifted.</p>
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