Dave Volek
1 min readDec 13, 2021

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Canada has not gone digital for its general elections. Its paper ballot is working quite well from what I can see.

One reason for this success is our 338 federal ridings. Our system is granulated enough such that if there is a little cheating or poor administration (and this does happen), maybe 10 ridings might be a target for a recount. The other 328 ridings have a big enough difference between first and second place that some inconsistencies won't overturn the result.

We need to granulate more. The TDG electoral units --at the first tier--are about 200 residents. Very easy to affirm a proper election was conducted with paper ballots. At the higher tiers, voting representatives might number between 5 and 25, which is much easier to affirm a proper election with a paper ballot.

In contrast, the Canadian political parties have gone digital for their leadership contests. In that way, all party members can vote. But there is often controversy with these elections. The parties are pretty good at hiding the controversy by rallying around the first declared winner.

Digital is not a solution, in my books.

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Dave Volek
Dave Volek

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Dave Volek is the inventor of “Tiered Democratic Governance”. Let’s get rid of all political parties! Visit http://www.tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/tdg.php

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