Taiwan: Paper Ballots. Audience watch counters raise Each Ballot

[FullCountNotRecount]

to show who was voted on it. Names are Quadrupled Spaced so there is not confusion about who was voted for...takes a couple of hours to compile the vote for a country 1/10 the size of ours. People count the votes not machines. There were problems in the last Taiwan election but not many with the counting of votes.

[ithacan]

1. Canada does paper ballots for federal elections too

it is just common sense.

one problem: the computer companies can't bilk local and state governments for millions of dollars...

and, much harder to fix the election because of the paper trail.

[Eric J in MN]

2. That is how we should do it.

We don't need voting machines.

People are capable of counting.

[kiahzero]

4. Only if you stick with the current, crappy system for choosing.

First past the post is abysmally bad, and the best alternative (Condorcet), is not as straightforward as simply incrementing a count.

[UL_Approved]

3. There's nothing wrong with paper

Without paper records, nothing exists except in rumor.