I am not defending this, but I did read one Dominion manual...
If I understood correctly, the basic excuse would be for a handicapped person who can not mark their own ballot to use the machine to enter a vote and print it out.
Man really weird how Canada, Australia and numerous other countries still vote with paper and pen and have people with no limbs and compulsory voting. It's almost like they could ask someone to fill in the bubbles for them rather than a printer and even then thats kind of questionable behavior to have someone fill in your vote for you.
How are those votes counted though ?Pen and paper doesn't mean anything when the electronic counter just disregards it anyway. I was under the impression that Smartmatic is present in Australian elections
Smartmatic is for online voting in some States in Australia. Everything else is counted by hand and done via pen and paper. Australia has this system called preferential voting and it's all very complex, probably too complex for the computer to understand, simply put a vote isn't going to always go for a candidate unless you mark them number 1 and even then it can be later distributed to other candidates under the right circumstances, i.e, you vote for someone but they only get one vote in the seat which is the minority for all votess. But no machines counting votes, it's just regular people counting from the citizen population.
I am not defending this, but I did read one Dominion manual...
If I understood correctly, the basic excuse would be for a handicapped person who can not mark their own ballot to use the machine to enter a vote and print it out.
Absolute bullshit imo.
Man really weird how Canada, Australia and numerous other countries still vote with paper and pen and have people with no limbs and compulsory voting. It's almost like they could ask someone to fill in the bubbles for them rather than a printer and even then thats kind of questionable behavior to have someone fill in your vote for you.
How are those votes counted though ?Pen and paper doesn't mean anything when the electronic counter just disregards it anyway. I was under the impression that Smartmatic is present in Australian elections
Smartmatic is for online voting in some States in Australia. Everything else is counted by hand and done via pen and paper. Australia has this system called preferential voting and it's all very complex, probably too complex for the computer to understand, simply put a vote isn't going to always go for a candidate unless you mark them number 1 and even then it can be later distributed to other candidates under the right circumstances, i.e, you vote for someone but they only get one vote in the seat which is the minority for all votess. But no machines counting votes, it's just regular people counting from the citizen population.