Why “ballots” is being discussed
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Gore was literally trying to steal that election by doing selective recounts and having partial hand recount results included in the final tallies with machine counted results.…
by rayiner · Oct 20, 2026
I asked an LLM: > Me: With this voting technology https://spec.davinci.vote/ how can one verify that the voters are real people and not bots? > ChatGPT: The key d…
by codedokode · Oct 19, 2026
You don’t, but you can validate the system as a whole. If you wish you can show up in the morning, confirm the ballot box is empty, look at the ballot box all day, follow the bo…
by Thlom · Oct 18, 2026
>I.e., you can have a paperless blockchain solution IFF you abandon vote secrecy. That is a very tough to swallow pill. With voting you need to have one piece of the pipeline th…
by Muromec · Oct 18, 2026
Not in Spain, we only use electronic means for preliminary aggregate results. Each voting station gets a paper voter list. When one votes, their name is struck off this list and…
by debugnik · Oct 18, 2026
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A ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election and may be found as a piece of paper or a small ball used in voting. It was originally a small ball used to record decisions made by voters in Italy around the 16th century. Read more on Wikipedia