There are Paper Votes and then there are Paper Votes

Voter's confidence in paper voting may be misplaced, at least at the city level.

Not that there necessarily are unintended, accidental or purposeful mistakes -- but we don't know.

I understand that the city legislation of the city vote specifies that the actual paper votes cannot be used to verify the computer readouts of voting results.

And that the company - or at least the same technology - that had such trouble in the 2000 U.S. presidential election is the same one being used for our Edmonton city elections.

People can have confidence in the provincial and federal elections. They use a system where voters put an X on a piece of paper that can be counted and recounted. Electronic voting - not to mention electronic voting - is not used --- people still count pieces of paper by hand and sort into piles by hand, etc.

But should voters have the same confidence in the means used in Edmonton city elections?

Thanks for reading.

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