Reply #8: Elections with hand counted paper ballots used to get stolen too

[havocmom]

It is not the cure all one would hope for. And it takes huge amounts of man-hours which means money most areas do not have.

Better to go for scanned ballots, which at least exist outside of a computer's memory and can be recounted if need be.

Thinking that hand counting would assure an honest election is just ignoring history. Old 'political machines' were made of people if I recall. Get enough of one side hand counting the ballots and it wasn't up to the voters anymore.

Want honest and accurate? Make sure the people running the entire voting and counting process are more concerned with democracy than with ideology. That means more folks have to be actively involved with how things are done in their areas.

Democracy is not a spectator sport. Americans have to be involved or bad people take the reins.