By hortense, 11:00 AM on Sun Sep 27 2009, 501 views
[at 21:29, Lisbon time]
[Lisbon, September 27. Image via Getty.]
An woman casts her ballot at a polling station in central Lisbon, on 27 September, 2009. Portugal vote today to choose between ruling Socialists pledging a spending spree to create jobs and conservatives calling for belt-tightening to battle the economic crisis. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL RIOPA (Photo credit should read MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images)
COMMENTS so far:
«Hmm. I thought Portugal was a fairly advanced nation, so I'm surprised to see that they still vote with folded slips of paper. »
«To be fair, we certainly haven't been the poster child for super-accurate and fraud-proof electronic voting. Maybe there's something to be said for a folded slip of paper. ;) »
«That's how Germany votes too. it assures that people actually understand what they are doing and if you are just making one (or two) X it's more efficient as well. It's actually a really effective way to vote and is really easy way to count the votes after they were cast and ensure that it stays simple.»
«I'd say most European countries still use paper ballots, at least the two in whose elections I can vote, the UK and Germany, do. Votes can still be counted quite quickly, there's no tech failure and it's easier to re-count.»
«Canada still does too, I think. Or at least we did when I went with my mom to vote a few years ago (I believe it was when Paul Martin was elected). I get to vote this fall for the first time. :)»
« I was going to say the same thing: if they want to cheat, they'd have to do it the old-fashioned way, not the Diebold way.»
«That's how we vote in Canada too. It's hard to accidently mess up a vote: Unfold, read, "x" the box next to your choice, fold, drop in ballot box. Now, if you want to purposely mess up your ballot you have a nice bit of paper and a pencil to draw all over it.»
«In the last UK election votes were with crazy arse long bits of paper that supposedly, well according to them anyway, means some people do not unfold it fully and vote for those parties at the bottom of the paper. Or it could just be no-one wanted to vote for UKIP.»
«We here in Ireland, along with the UK, France, Germany and Spain all use paper ballots. I don't necessarily see electronic voting as indicative of how advanced a nation is, there are plenty of bent democracies with rigged elections that allow their constituents to vote electronically...and then ignore their preferences... And, paper ballots allow one to spoil ones vote, which is the best fun ever! I was volunteering at the count last year for the Lisbon referendum mark one, and was delighted by the inegnuity of some of the spoiled votes. people voted for raptor jesus, Daniel O' Donnell (if you're unfamiliar, youtube. you won't be disappointed), and a host of other imaginative candidates as a way of registering their displeasure with the Irish government and Brussels. You just can't get up to that kind of electoral mischief with a machine!»
«I wasn't saying that one form of voting is better than another—I was just surprised, that's all. I figured most advanced nations had jumped on the electronic bandwagon, but it sounds like that's not the case.»
«Oh we tried though! the government bought up all these electronic voting machines in a haze of publicity right in the middle of the celtic tiger. turns out that not only were they crazy expensive, they also didn't work. they now lie abandoned in a warehouse somewhere in the midlands. the country is also now bankrupt. so I relish the chance to let them know what I think about THEM apples next friday, on a nice paper ballot!»
«FYI: Brazil was the first country to use an electronic voting system.»
« There are still some quiet a few areas in the US where paper ballots area used for just about everything. In fact just last year I voted in the presidential elections on a piece of paper with a grease marker. »
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