Authors:
Ted Selker, Justin Pelletier
The user experience of voting seems simple: a mark next to a choice. The fact that it determines the direction society is headed makes creating and counting this mark a central point of control. Organizing voting processes to collect, count, and report votes correctly often seems like an arms race between major political players. Indeed, people serve time for felonies, including stopping voters from getting to a polling place, turning them away, giving them incorrect ballots, destroying or subverting the mechanisms for depositing votes, not depositing ballots, destroying deposited ballots, altering ballots, and incorrectly counting ballots. Civilization learned a…
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