[EM] Question on RCV/IRV multi-seat method used in Minneapolis

[Raph Frank]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Kathy Dopp <kathy.dopp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is similar in Ireland, confidence in the count is high.  The
>> electoral register on the other hand isn't trusted quite so much.
>
> Unfortunately in most US states, we have utterly SECRET ballot
> security procedures and no publicly verifiable ballot reconciliation,
> so that no one can know if the ballots have been tampered with,
> substituted, properly handled, or what.

Secret ballot security measures are clearly a bad idea, especially if
they are the only measures.