When computers count the votes in Ontario’s municipal elections, will they do so accurately? It’s possible that they do, but we do not have adequate assurances that this is the case. This is a serious problem that casts doubt on the democratic process. Imagine for a moment that we handed the counting of all votes to one individual in each local election. Imagine further that no other election official ever saw a ballot that he counted, nor could…
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