We Need Online Voting

[Xithras]

11. 230 million

That's the number of potentially eligible voters in the United States, and the number of ballots that could potentially need to be counted in any national election. "Camera's rolling" is only a useful safety check if someone is actually going to sit there and watch all 230 million ballots being hand counted.

Fraud is a human invention, perpetrated by humans on other humans. By going back to an all hand system, you are injecting the most fraud prone counting instrument ever invented into the middle of the election...the human mind. Statistically, half of your hand counters will be Republicans, 10% of whom are teagaggers. All of your counters are going to come in with their biases, their prejudices, and a preference for one outcome over another. It's a fantasy to believe that these biases can't impact the vote count, or that placing cameras in the counting rooms will somehow prevent fraud from happening.

A computer is neutral, impartial, less error prone, and far superior to human beings when it comes to tabulating an unbiased answer. The one and only problem with computers is that their code is written by the same biased, prejudiced, fraudulent human beings as we would have counting them by hand. The fix for that problem is to require that all election code be public, so that it can be examined by people with the opposite biases, revealing the fraud before it can impact anything. Computers don't lie, cheat, or steal. They do exactly what they are told, how they are told to do it. Those are the eyes we need to have counting our ballots.