• Mohamed@lemmy.ca
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      No, we don’t use machines in Canada, nor is there a plan to introduce them.

      I had to double check myself, but seems the statement was correct. Elections Canada says that (see Voting Technology section in the link):

      Elections Canada does not use automatic ballot-counting machines to count ballots or tabulate results in Canadian federal elections.

      There are no plans to introduce Internet voting or ballot-counting technology for federal elections.

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        I voted using a machine in the last provincial election in BC. I wouldn’t be so certain that there is no plan to introduce them federally.

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          1: that’s provincial not federal.

          2: you still marked a paper ballot. The machine simply scanned it. The paper ballots are still available for hand counting.

          3: those counting machines aren’t internet connected.

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      That’s great. That doesn’t stop them from interfering on the back side and hiding or destroying votes as they were caught multiple times in our country. All I can say is you NEED to take it extremely seriously before all of your youth is corrupted by Nazism.