South Korea to Use Hand Counts In Effort to Improve Election Creditability

Considering all the criticism past elections have been receiving that is impacting public confidence in elections, hand counts verifid by a machine count I think is the most effective way of maintaining election creditability which is what Korea plans to do:

The National Election Commission (NEC) said Wednesday it will introduce a manual ballot counting system for general elections in April in an effort to ensure transparency and prevent potential election rigging.

Currently, machines are used to sort out and count votes. 

Under the envisioned new system, however, ballots will first be sorted out by machines, and election staff will manually check all of them before putting them into the counting machines.

“It is meant to boost transparency and credibility over the course of the elections to prevent vote-rigging suspicions,” the commission said, adding that repeated suspicions over election fraud have “hampered national unity and fostered the boycott of election results.”

It is expected to take longer for the commission to confirm election results under the new system, and the commission will significantly beef up personnel for the process.

Yonhap

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setnaffa
setnaffa
10 months ago

This is indeed a better way.

rocketman
rocketman
10 months ago

It all depends on who’s doing the counting and who their counting for.

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