Re: Solution
"Sure in most cases it means manual counting of votes etc but as these are doing in local polling stations they are on a much smaller scale and feed up to the total making fraud much more difficult as the votes come in from so many other locations."
There are often highly localized items on the ballot, so that one nefarious counter could change an outcome. I've seen town council seats won with less than 80 total votes tallied, and I'm in a fairly populous area.
Plus there is the sad fact that there are otherwise quite intelligent people who have problems counting past 10 (unless not wearing shoes, then they can hit 20 with some regularity). That's why the whole electronic tabulation thing took off to begin with.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
