AEC Accused of employing shonky scrutineers

[Neferti]

Former police commissioner Mick Keelty to investigate 1,300 missing Senate ballots in WA

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-31/m ... wa/5061174

Next .... Clive threatening all and sundry .........

Poor old Aussie must be shaking in his boots.

[mantra]

It certainly looks suspicious. You would think these vote counters would be checked out properly. You can't just give the benefit of the doubt to Clive Palmer because he demands it.

How do we know this doesn't happen regularly if we're using shonky counters?

We need to start using electronic voting, although even that gets tampered with.

[mellie]

We need to start voting in pen, not pencil and on numbered and watermarked ballot forms whereby we as individuals may jump online after the count and check to see if our votes were in fact recorded with the AEC correctly.

Similar to how one may check their flight itinerary, or bank transactions online.


The public would be the best scrutineers of their own votes, of which should do away with the need for lay-scrutineers like Aussie.
Instead of miscounting votes, these scrutineers could be engaging in more meaningful publicly scrutinisable data entry.
If millions of virtual monkeys almost typed out the entire works of Shakespeare by bashing random keys on simulated typewriters in the UK, then surely the likes of Aussie and fellow flying monkey scrutineers should be able to manage some simple AEC data entry?

No counting required!



I call it my Infinite Aussie Theorem.




Just one of many of my more brilliant ideas.