The Australian Ballot is private voting, public counting.
The gold standard implementation is ballots cast at poll sites, tabulated on site, the moment the polls close, all results immediately shared publicly.
For better or for worse, many postal balloting implementations are as bad as touchscreen voting, election integrity wise. Much care is needed to preserve voter privacy and ensure physical chain of custody.
For example, many jurisdictions process ballots daily, image both signatures and votes, using image processing to recognize votes, and adjudicate voter intent (manually override errors) in the database. One side effect of daily processing is the running daily total. What you and I would call tabulation, but admins claim only the final report is the tabulation.
The Australian Ballot is private voting, public counting.
The gold standard implementation is ballots cast at poll sites, tabulated on site, the moment the polls close, all results immediately shared publicly.
For better or for worse, many postal balloting implementations are as bad as touchscreen voting, election integrity wise. Much care is needed to preserve voter privacy and ensure physical chain of custody.
For example, many jurisdictions process ballots daily, image both signatures and votes, using image processing to recognize votes, and adjudicate voter intent (manually override errors) in the database. One side effect of daily processing is the running daily total. What you and I would call tabulation, but admins claim only the final report is the tabulation.
Etc.