Australia’s elections are, in my view, very well conducted.
We use paper ballots counted by hand, under direct scrutiny by people from all the parties involved (I’ve been one of these scrutineers a few times) and the number of ballots have to match the number of people specifically identified as having voted.
A byproduct of our preferential voting system is that if a result is close, the ballots involved will have been counted multiple times and the number of ballots has to match every time.
In 2014, the entire Senate election result for Western Australia was thrown out, and an entirely new election held because 1370 ballots out of about 1.2 million cast (ie, only a little over 0.1% of total ballots) went missing during a recount.
We take election integrity extremely seriously.
Excellent. We could obviously learn from you guys.
Electronic systems seem very suspect to me.
I really appreciate that report.
How about fascist dictators? Do you take them "extremely seriously"?