
How Voting Works
A limited series podcast about the mechanics and technology of how we vote, mostly in the United States.
Podcasting since 2024 • 5 episodes
How Voting Works
Latest Episodes
Episode 5 – Post-election audits to check the machines
How do we trust our ballot tabulators? Post-election audits, that's how.Risk-Limiting Auditshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-limiting_auditMore about Ris...
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Episode 5
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Episode 4 – Ballot Marking Devices and Voters with Disabilities
In most democracies other than the United States, voters with disabilities are often required to forgo ballot secrecy in exchange for their right to vote. In the United States, that's considered unacceptable, and in fact it is illegal. This...
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Episode 4
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Episode 3 – Electronic Voting Machines and the Paper Ballot
For a few years in the early 2000s, the US deployed fully electronic voting machines, also known as DREs, fairly broadly. Today, DREs are mostly gone, replaced by voter-verifiable paper ballots.Sources:
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Episode 3
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