COMMENT: Things have only gotten worse with computerized vote counting in the US since this list was assembled in 2022. Not only are our votes counted by computers, post election audits in most states, including New York, provide scant evidence to confirm election outcomes. https://freespeechforpeople.org/new-report-finds-post-election-audits-in-most-swing-states-provide-scant-evidence-to-confirm-election-outcomes/ Allegra Dengler
On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 12:39 AM 'Theodore de Macedo Soares' via Election Integrity <ElectionIntegrity@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Almost all other major democracies use hand-counted paper ballots:
The United States remains one of the few major democracies in the world that continue to allow computerized vote counting—not observable by the public—to determine the results of its elections
[1]. Countries such as Germany [2] Norway [3], Netherlands [4], France, [5, 6], Canada, [7] , Denmark [8, 9], United Kingdom [10], Ireland [10], Spain [10], Portugal [10], Sweden [10], Finland [10], and many other countries [10], protect the integrity and trust of their elections with publicly observable hand-counting of paper ballots.
[1] According to a 2020 Gallup World Poll, https://news.gallup.com/poll/285608/faith-elections-relatively-short-supply.aspx, only 40% of Americans say they are confident in the honesty of U.S. elections. Finland and Norway with 89% of their citizens expressing confidence in the honesty of their elections along with the citizens of 25 other countries have greater confidence in their elections than do Americans.
[2] “Rigged to Work”: https://www.dw.com/en/no-concerns-over-election-fraud-in-germany/a-17102003
[3] “Norwegian votes to be counted manually in fear of election hacking” https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/life-and-public/2017/09/norwegian-votes-be-counted-manually-fear-election-hacking
[4] “Fearful of Hacking, Dutch Will Count Ballots by Hand”: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/world/europe/netherlands-hacking-concerns-hand-count-ballots.html
[5] “Voting in France: Paper ballots, in person, hand-counted”:https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-france-elections-europe-96859198666d51b2c4482c3cdb0eb6aa
[6] French Senate: Making the moratorium on use of voting machines permanent. https://www.senat.fr/rap/r13-445/r13-445_mono.html
[7] Canada Elections Act (S.C. 2000, c. 9) https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/E-2.01/page-22.html#h-206023
[8] Denmark’s election law does “not permit electronic voting technologies to be used during voting” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312923857_A_Risk-Limiting_Audit_in_Denmark_A_Pilot
[9] Folketing (Parliamentary) Elections Act, Translation (Consolidated Act No. 1260 of 27 August 2020) CHAPTER I: GENERAL ELECTIONS AND REFERENDUMS. Counting of the Votes Cast at the Polling Station, Part 9 “[T]he polling supervisors and the appointed electors, … shall count the votes cast at the polling station. The counting is public.” https://elections.im.dk/parliament-elections/folketing-parliamentary-elections-act
[10] The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network. Vote Counting. Country List. Count votes by hand. https://web.archive.org/web/20221114152441/https%3A%2F%2Faceproject.org%2Fabout-en%2FCDTable%3Fquestion%3DVC005%26set_language%3Den