Comment Re:Say "No" to electronic voting machines (Score 1) 127
Same thing can happen with paper ballot counting machines, it's all just centralized in the elections office.
Which is why you don't bother with machines, period.
Up here, it's paper ballots, marked with pens, counted using Mk1 eyeballs at the polling station in full view of witnesses from any candidates that wish to send one. The only machines involved in anything are the printers used to make the ballots and the telephones used to call in the stations' results to the Returning Officer.