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Without going into detail, what were the main concerns with the Norwegian system? Is a manual recount simply to validate the electronic ballot? What happens when the manual count is wrong (which it will be)?
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@lonm It certainly is a cool story. Well done, Patricia!
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@mossman: If I followed correctly (not knowing norvegian), the main problem was that the ballot were optically scanned, and never counted by hand. And the integrity of the softwares of the scanner was never demonstrated. So trusting only in them was stupid.
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:Knight: Even here in the US it is hard for some researchers to get through to companies of the vote counting machines. I know more than one time a manually count of votes has been demanded and has happened many times in many different elections.
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@mossman: "Right" or "wrong" isn't a matter of extreme exactitude. Yes, humans make mistakes and it's unlikely that a manual count is perfect, but the important thing is that the correct result is reached. A systemic error in a manual count is unlikely given the presence of impartial observers (or observers for all candidates, or both), but a systemic error in a machine can and does happen, a lot.
Unless the race is extremely close (a few hundred votes or less), a manual count should have sufficient accuracy to validate the accuracy of the machine.
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@jking I think you misunderstand me - a hand count will nearly always produce a small error. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with hand counting, but it's highly likely that the machine and hand count will disagree - so even if the machine is always right, the recount may repeatedly say it's wrong. The question was if that would be considered margin of error on the human side or would people tend to think there a systemic issue with the machine...
But I'm satisfied with the detailed answer from Patricia since it does address this.
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Oh. When I saw a new post in the blog with an envelope on the picture I thought that email client is finally here...
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@fifonik If (when?) that becomes available it'll be after a major version jump, not partway through the snapshot cycle. But yes, I too look forward to that.
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@moondawg That there was no human verification of electronic results (which are hackable).
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