Why is the US so gung-ho on voting machines? As noted in at least the last two elections, they can be readily tampered with. Why not just a simple paper ballot? There is no voter fraud in Canada, at least not of marking a vote for one person, but actually voting for another. Yes, it would take longer to count all the votes, but the results should be more accurate.
Canadian,
American party officials and our government rely on fraud to control the elections. It is easier to commit undetected fraud with the machine than the old fashioned ways of cheating elections.
Voting machines:
It is more cost effective and tidier than paying people to repeatedly vote. It involves far fewer cheaters and is not subject to photographic evidence.
They can flip the vote 51%-49% and it only requires the involvement of 2-3 people.
We use paper ballots in my county. They are easily counted by a scanner and you have backup.
The electronic machine is only for the disabled and the last election I worked it wasn’t even used. Even disabled people don’t trust it.
Because of the volunteers in the back rooms of the union halls filling them out by the hundreds, to be "found" when that know how many they need?
At least that was the story from Florida in 2000.
Because of the incompetence of a few, electronic voting machines were foisted upon all of us without proper vetting.
We also now have vote by mail because people can't be asked to wait in a line for an hour or so to do their public duty, even though these same people will wait in line for hours to get a deal on a color TV. I'm sure that vote by mail is extremely open to fraud ... and incompetence as well.
At some point we're going to have to reorganize the US around tribal grounds, have everyone who votes dip his finger in purple ink, and you can only vote with your tribe since they know you.