• Photuris@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    We should 100%, unironically go back solely to paper ballots. Even if they take months to tally up.

    • rcbrk@lemmy.ml
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      17 hours ago

      These are Australian elections – it is 100% paper ballots.

      https://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/counting/

      The starlink thing is just a backup link for communicating election-night preliminary count data counted by election staff at the booths. Then the ballots are transported to counting centres for the official count. Full legal results aren’t known for a couple of weeks.

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        12 hours ago

        Still not a good enough reasons to use Starlink.

        We should be investing in making sure all Voting Locations have proper telecommunication infrastructure.

        Most voting locations are schools and most schools are connected to the NBN.

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          2 hours ago

          In the article, the AEC says Starlink is only a backup.

          Also, there’s a lot of remote polling locations where the only options are satellite-based - so if they’re planning to use the NBN satellites (Sky Muster), but a backup is required, Starlink makes sense for that.