Should the citizens of the USA demand votes be counted manually from paper ballots?

Question

I am a programmer and I could write the code that would make you think your vote counted and in reality I could give it to someone else. even though human error is always a concern, I think it is far less likely that hometown ma and pa will cheat or make mistakes on paper ballots as opposed to politicians cheating via electronic means. Please get real.

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Answer 1

You'd have to be trusting people, either way.
If it is counted manually, more people would have to be trustworthy.

I'd go with the machines and make damned sure of the programmer.

Answer 2

I think people who dislike electronic voting are paranoid. The same people who will buy sports tickets, online date, and participate in forums like this don't trust the computers with their votes? I think your vote is as likely to count on a computer as it would be on paper. Remember some of the political scammers working in Chicago and Texas in the 50's and 60's.

Answer 3

When do you want to see results, 3 months later? Manual counting is ridiculous and much more prone to error - HUMAN error.

Answer 4

Yes. I want a paper trail that looks like Interstate 5, OK?

Answer 5

We should have standardized voting across the 50 states and our territories that should be electronic.

Answer 6

Get over it! Bush won fair and square. For every error that occurred in his favor, another occurred somewhere else in Gore's. People never considered that when they were grasping at hanging chads.

Answer 7

I think not because it would leave more room for human error.(and that's putting it lightly)

Answer 8

Why? What's wrong with the machines we use?