Re: Most Secure Voting Machine
@tom dial - Appropriate counting procedures make such malpractice impractical. My personal experience is with UK county council elections, where I acted as an observer. Each candidate could have observers at the count. Observers had to swear in front of a JP that they would not interfere beforehand. Ballot boxes were opened and ballots counted in view of the observers who could raise queries. Spoiled and questionable ballots were reviewed by the Returning Officer with the candidate's Agents. Ballot counters were mostly (all?) local government employees. Nothing is hidden.
It's all scalable - if you're a candidate with a chance of winning, you have enough supporters to act as observers; larger constituencies have larger pools of local government employees to act as ballot counters. A corrupt ballot counter is risking their permanent job, and has very little opportunity to act unobserved.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
