[ExI] Immaculate Election

[Dave Sill]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:21 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Hi Dave, I have no objections to any of that, with an important condition:
> the votes must be counted by hand, the results certified before any machine
> anything can take place.  Once those votes have been counted by hand and
> certified, the optical systems can do anything they want.  If they report
> something different from what the human-certified count reported, no
> worries, put them thru the machine again.  And again.  If still a
> discrepancy, recount by hand.  If the machine still disagrees with the
> human count, let the plaintiff take it to court.
>

So you throw away the advantage of technology. No point in having the
technology, then.

If quick results, just use the exit polls.  That’s the quickest of all.
> Better yet, use entrance polls, which is even quicker.  Those can be done
> weeks or months before election day.  This way, the voter confidence in the
> election result is maintained, and we know weeks or months ahead of the
> election who won.  The good guys win, everyone wins.
>

Notoriously inaccurate. Nobody is going to project a winner except in the
most one-sided contests.

-Dave
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