MB Civic

Last March, the country’s highest court found secret, computerized vote counting unconstitutional. The country was Germany. The Constitution that computerized counting violated was the one the U.S. wrote and insisted Germans ratify under the terms of surrender following WWII … While hand-counting is routinely discredited, notice the odd paradox that, in the closest elections, a public hand-count of paper ballots (where they exist) is used to determine who actually won. According to this oxymoronic logic, hand-counting is no good unless you really want to know the winner

– Friedman in Commonweal Institute .. read more