Re:In Canada... (Score 1)

I'm in the states and where I live we do the exact same thing. It works wonderfully, and because you don't need any expensive voting machines there are no shortage of voting locations. It's never taken me more than 20 minutes to vote, and that includes the time spent walking to the polling place and back.

Living in Europe, Austria. No voting machines - pencil and paper only, completely anonymous after presenting your ID once to avoid double votes - no one checks what you do in the cabin - the only thing that government knows is whether you turned up to vote or not.. And afterward it is still up to you whether you put your cross onto the paper or not. No way to tell for anyone outside. So simple: Counting the votes is done by a representative from each political party that took part in the election. Fraud almost impossible, election results available the same day - late hours, I admit - but ready the almost immediately. Would never trust a machine - we hacked voting machines in the Netherlands to play chess instead of accepting votes - this almost immediately killed the voting machine business in central Europe.