Bulgaria Vote Could Be 'Messy' With Return Of Paper Ballots

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Жыл бұрын

Bulgarians go to the polls on April 2 to vote in the country's fifth parliamentary election in two years amid ongoing political instability. There are concerns over possible political fraud after it was decided voters would be able to use paper ballots as well as electronic voting machines.
Originally published at - www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-vote...

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@rugosetexture2716
@rugosetexture2716 Жыл бұрын
Yes, paper ballots can be 'messy', but remember the advertising slogan of the Dominion Voting Machines corporation: "Our Customers Always Come First".
@janblackman6204
@janblackman6204 Жыл бұрын
I noticed how disparaging you are about paper ballots. I like them
@bunnylarese2161
@bunnylarese2161 Жыл бұрын
This channel is run by the CIA
@1h8u2be4real
@1h8u2be4real Жыл бұрын
Google "Bulgarian train"
@Fin4L6are
@Fin4L6are Жыл бұрын
both paper and electronic are unsafe alone
@christopheklinger3217
@christopheklinger3217 11 ай бұрын
Here in France, we vote with ballot paper, no writing, no notching, no multiple subjects. Simple. Local people (like me, designated by the municipality), doing at the end of the voting hours the counting. Voting is always done on sunday.
@MrJdsenior
@MrJdsenior Жыл бұрын
Both methods can be manipulated. The question is which one is more difficult and especially which one is more difficult to manipulate at the scale where it would make a difference in the outcome. The questions aren't rocket science. Finding the answers is a lot more difficult. IMO, you could put methods in place to further protect voting accuracy in reporting with some pretty simple protocols. One of those protocols should be that no part of the voting system, from beginning to end touches the internet, or any outside unencoded communications, except indirectly, just like is done with secret information (if the govt weren't in the loop, anyway, they tend to give it away like candy to support their own agendas, a few of them). The software that is written for those machines should be handled as top secret, with additional tags such as (maybe, only one I could think of) comsec, and maybe even some absolutely specific classifications. The problem is that with ANY system, no matter how complex, there are going to be ways to manipulate it, if you know enough and have access, but through very careful design of systems and protocols you can make that VERY difficult. The place where the final numbers pop up (which should be multiple places), and the places where the votes are input into the machines are obviously the easiest points to intervene. I would hope that people that know about a million times what I do about the problem and the available (and newly designed) methods are working this problem VERY diligently. They probably are. It would be really easy to have a few people in cahoots in a voting precinct to modify the outcome totally, with paper. From what I can see the check is your name in a book and your ballot in a box, at least it was the last time I voted under that system. That is very damned weak. I am like a zero level expert in any of this, specific to voting especially, but just making a few hopefully valid points.
@phild3936
@phild3936 Жыл бұрын
The problem as I see it is that computer based voting/counting are unaccountable. If I vote 'A' and the machine registers 'B' how would I know? "It would be really easy to have a few people in cahoots in a voting precinct to modify the outcome totally, with paper. " Not under the paper based Belgian system (though some parts have started using computers). Everything is witnessed except the actual voting in the voting boot and every ballot is counted, used & unused (meaning that if a voting bureau starts with say 1000 ballots and 900 people vote then there better be 100 unused ballots remaining). No chance of finding 'forgotten' votes in a trunk of a car or on some USB-stick like in the insane USA system. no releasing bollots in the wild and see what comes back.
@LuciFeric137
@LuciFeric137 Жыл бұрын
Hahahahaha. Yeah. Here too. Because humans counting paper is so much more accurate. Blockchain voting could eliminate all this nonsense.
@anotherelvis
@anotherelvis Жыл бұрын
If a country isn't extremely corrupt, then paper ballots will always be the best option.
@Tmb1112
@Tmb1112 Жыл бұрын
Oh, crazy how blatant your opinion is on paper ballots. How about you report the news, rather than tell us what to think of it? Okay?
@SueUTube
@SueUTube Жыл бұрын
Messy? Anti-corruption efforts shouldn't be judged by neatness.
@bobjohnbowles
@bobjohnbowles Жыл бұрын
You think using paper ballots will _reduce_ corruption? How?
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