New Hampster, sorry, New Hampshire, will use open source voting software next week!

[thewayne]

Specifically, three towns will, and will hand-tally election results along side the open source software in verification. Should be interesting. Anyone who wants to challenge the result is welcome to hire a software expert to analyze the code and try to find problems that could be interpreted as vote flipping.

Now, this is not an electronic voting machine, this is a vote scanner or tabulator. People up there use paper ballots, which I think is the safe way to vote.

Pretty cool, IMO.

https://therecord.media/new-hampshire-set-to-pilot-voting-machines-that-use-software-everyone-can-see/

https://politics.slashdot.org/story/22/11/03/2155238/new-hampshire-set-to-pilot-voting-machines-that-use-open-source-software#comments

Comments

[rain_gryphon]

Open source and paper ballots are absolutely the way to have an honest election.

[thewayne]

I think it's the best way.  But there's still problems with hand-counting ballots and getting totals to agree, surprisingly.  People are still a fallible factor, and it's a slow process counting literally thousands upon thousands of ballots.

[rain_gryphon]

They used to be able to hand count ballots overnight. And, at any rate, I'd rather have a correct result than a fast one. And yeah, hand counts will never 100% agree. That's unavoidable.

[thewayne]

My wife said that at her precinct they're not even counting mail-in ballots until Wednesday.  I'm not sure if that's county-wide, I guess it must be.  She's sent me a couple of text messages this morning, said it's an absolute zoo!  People out the door, massively exceeding the number of booths that they have!