The issue of public counting is the same as "publicly available" information, which is that the information is only available to those who go to witness the counting, which means that the real world effectiveness of the audit method approaches zero. Auditing should be as conveniently available as possible to everyone who casts a vote, and an anonymous verification of each vote cast, plus being able to count all votes cast, would provide an incremental improvement in protecting against election fraud.

(It is also worth nothing that public viewing of the vote count is not possible by all voters, because the audit venue cannot support all voters being present, so in the case that there is concern over vote integrity, perps may intentionally fill the venue and prevent others from viewing the audit.)

That is all speculative conjecture. You are not providing evidence. Your claim does not align with what what I have experienced. My suggestion in no way requires the tabulation state who has voted how, only a method to allow audit by each voter.

I didn't read the article this way. He is just pointing out popular, direct evidence of hacking political activities to build support for increasing security of the election infrastructure.

Your conclusion is wrong, due several factors:

There is no perfect system (nirvana fallacy) and your discussion does not compare the advantages and disadvantages of each system, and instead arrives at a conclusion based on listing disadvantages.

Voters can already be intimidated and provide proof of their vote with MMS, or any of the myriad photo-sharing apps, many of which are now providing end-to-end encryption.

The elimination of the voter being able to prove how they voted through official documentation removes the voter's ability to perform an audit of their own vote's tabulation. Voters uncovering elections fraud outweighs the very small (non-existent? - provide a link to cases of these claims, ever? Appeal to probability much?) vote-buying instances.

You can also use the same ink type used in Fisher Space Pens.

Would not having a maintained OS be reason enough for them?

I'm in the same boat with my Dell, but it is 9 years old. I use it for business trips because all I ever have time for is responding to email, maybe open some spreadsheets. Everything else I need I can get from my phone. I like the old Dell because it has a ridiculous battery life since it is just a Core Duo 1.2 GHz with a battery nearly half the laptop's weight.

DuckDuckGo is hosted on AWS, so there is nothing special about using it other than it isn't Google or Microsoft.

I thought Robin hood recovered tax revenues and returned those to the taxpayers?

This is completely correct, but the solution is not forking, as many will suggest. Recognizing that there are different views on everything should be accomplished not by just having different paragraphs in the same article, but entirely different articles with different maintainers under the same title, with presentation clearly calling out the different maintainers. Further, you could make the articles clearly part of someone or some group's approval.

This way people who want to understand the differing viewpoints on various topics can see how they are presented by the people who believe in that viewpoint. While this may muddy the water, I believe this would be superior to the current debacle because it would eliminate the bureaucrats and their fiefdoms from polluting the overall resource with their petty games, which is, by far, the very worst and most discouraging part of Wikipedia for both editors and readers.

Well, if Linux on the desktop developers can get their act together before Windows 7 expires, they may well get all the computers that I personally administrate. I have decided Linux is going to be in competition even with Apple for my patronage, but I'm definitely not doing anything with Microsoft so long as the terms of their agreement dictate that they own everything done through their OS. I just won't have any part of it.

Why not just allow some other company to also run underground cables in my neighborhood and to my house?