LuccaCardoso1 said:
JWeinCom said:
Why is it undemocratic? I'd love official results, but I don't see how taking a few days renders the process "undemocratic" assuming all votes are counted properly. Dunno enough about Brazil's elections to know if they do it better, but I don't see anything inherently wrong with this, aside from impatience.
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The second part of my post was unrelated to the first one. It's undemocratic because of the electoral college, not because of how long it takes to count.
But well, I have a few problems with voting on paper, as the votes are destructible. With electronic voting machines, every vote is stored even if the machine is destroyed. That's likely not going to change the outcome of an election or anything, but it seems more democratic to ensure that everyone has their votes counted.
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Paper votes are destructible. However, any changes made to them are immediately obvious.
Electronic votes are also destructible. You just need to hack into the voting machines and you can make any changes you want. If you know how everything works you can change the outcome of the election on the fly and nobody would even know anything about it.
This is the reason why European countries still use paper ballots - they're more fragile, but it's much more difficult to tamper with them.