On 18 September 2012 08:50, Jon Davies <jon.davies@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

+2

On 18 September 2012 08:43, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:

On 17 September 2012 23:40, James Farrar <james.farrar@gmail.com> wrote:

> Frankly, I have never trusted electoral systems that rely on computers to
> the point that the votes go in, a button is pushed, and a black box churns
> out a result. I'd be much happier with a system that can if necessary be
> recounted by hand so that there's a backup just in case.

+1. Oh my goodness yes.

Multi-seat STV/ERS97 is just about hand-countable... with the tellers having to edit the ballot paper's values regularly during a transfer of surplus.