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UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts (www.theguardian.com)
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UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts::Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years

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[–] kittyjynx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Hanging chads" on paper ballots helped Bush swing/steal the election from Gore. Paper ballots have a lot of problems too. At least in California every vote on an electronic voting machine generates a paper ballot.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Paper systems have problems and years of experience solving them. Multiple parties with different interests watch to verify the input and counting process. Electronic is not watchable, tye result is unverifable - it's not fit for purpose.