2007-11-03 03:56:57 · 7 answers · asked by Arnold M 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Dugh, NO, it may make it easier to cover up the tampering, and allow the votes to be tampered with in a much higher volume at one time.......
2007-11-03 04:00:59 · answer #1 · answered by Girly Q 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excluding any arguments about party sponsored voter fraud, no one's 100% sure.
Voting machines CAN be reprogrammed on election day. It takes more knowledge than the average computer user has and a few moments alone with the machine, but it could be done.
The machine can have an internal malfunction that can create a miscount.
The programmer may have been having a bad day, or thinking about that hot looking woman she saw at lunch, or trying to remember his grocery list (Do we need eggs?) and make a mistake.
There is no paper trail. A perfect system would print a tally of each voter (no names -- Voter #1, Voter #2, etc. and how they voted.) Later, if machine reports a malfunction or the total looks wrong, the tally slip can be manually checked. With no printed record, you have to trust the (Possibly broken) machine.
And once you push the RESET button, all the totals are gone forever.
To make our voting system better, we need to think backward, not forward. Paper ballots and pencils, every election, every office, nationwide. Counting the votes will take longer, but we have 2 months between Election Day and Federal office holders take office, that's plenty of time to do a good accurate count. It won't stop every instance of voter error, but it will certainly reduce them!
2007-11-03 05:29:45 · answer #2 · answered by another_guy_named_steve 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i imagine computerized election will be tamper-data in case it changed into prepared precise. there are countless technique of creating it safeguard and professionals might want to understand it. it is each and every of the count number of believe. There are high quality criteria like ISO9001, and if the organizer meets those criteria, we are able to believe them just about for certain. to stay away from problem at the same time as someone can vote many cases from diverse pcs, extreme elections in a lot of cases require to enter social coverage wide style, or something different which could come across the voter.
2016-10-23 08:00:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No its not - machines malfunction and are dependant on their programming.
Iin Australia we use paper voting papers with your vote pencilled in. The votes are manually tallied with scrutineers from the parties in the room and watching to see that there is no fraud.
Disputed votes are referred to the poling officer and usually resolved by discussion.
No machines and almost no likelihood of fraud - and no "hanging chads" either.
2007-11-03 22:20:28 · answer #4 · answered by fordfalcon1953 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course not. Its going to get manipulated. Manipulating votes is the history of democracy
2007-11-03 04:53:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no type of voting is tamper proof
thats why it should be capitol crime to tamper with elections
2007-11-03 04:12:38 · answer #6 · answered by 1 free American 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously not.
2007-11-03 05:21:32 · answer #7 · answered by Bob H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋