Ballot counting is open to the public, or at least to representatives of each party. I don't believe the ballots have serial numbers, but each voting place (usually a school gym) sends in their result to the department of interior.
At the end, the total tallies for each voting place are made public and printed in the two largest newspapers.
Thanks. Yes, I doubt that anywhere in the world has serialised ballots, but it's an idea that might take on after all the election rigging that we have seen gone on. Publishing the localised polling results sounds excellent because then the poll watchers at those locations can verify that they are correct and the public can tally all the results up for themselves.
The one major loophole could still be the voter roles, which can be filled up with phantom voters. And, of course, if the boxes of ballots are taken out of sight and then brought into the room for the party representatives to watch, the problem is that they could have been stuffed with votes in the back room.
Each voting place knows exactly who may turn up to vote (they cross you out on a list, when you collect your ballot), so stuffing the ballot boxes is difficult.
Cheating is of course always possible, but only locally and in small numbers.
Edit: Having phantom voters is not possible. Big Brother knows exactly who is legally allowed to vote, and that list is distributed to each voting place. If you are illegally in the country, you don't exist on the voter roles.
Ballot counting is open to the public, or at least to representatives of each party. I don't believe the ballots have serial numbers, but each voting place (usually a school gym) sends in their result to the department of interior.
At the end, the total tallies for each voting place are made public and printed in the two largest newspapers.
Thanks. Yes, I doubt that anywhere in the world has serialised ballots, but it's an idea that might take on after all the election rigging that we have seen gone on. Publishing the localised polling results sounds excellent because then the poll watchers at those locations can verify that they are correct and the public can tally all the results up for themselves.
The one major loophole could still be the voter roles, which can be filled up with phantom voters. And, of course, if the boxes of ballots are taken out of sight and then brought into the room for the party representatives to watch, the problem is that they could have been stuffed with votes in the back room.
Each voting place knows exactly who may turn up to vote (they cross you out on a list, when you collect your ballot), so stuffing the ballot boxes is difficult.
Cheating is of course always possible, but only locally and in small numbers.
Edit: Having phantom voters is not possible. Big Brother knows exactly who is legally allowed to vote, and that list is distributed to each voting place. If you are illegally in the country, you don't exist on the voter roles.