[quibit]

So they put a paper ballot with an RFID chip inside into a machine which then puts your vote into the chip, then you drop the ballot into a box? How is this any different from a regular paper ballot?

[pmouzo]

One of the problems in Argentina's elections is that volunteers of political parties steal the ballots of smaller parties from the voting room, and since these small parties don't have the man power or monetary resources to restock the ballots, they lose votes. A better solution would be single paper ballot, but the ruling parties don't want this because they are who benefit for the current system.

That said, this system prevents chain voting (a mechanism to make sure the votes that parties buy from low-income people are not changed).

[lucio]

This: http://www.laizquierdadiario.com/IMG/arton15789.jpg vs this: http://ondabaires.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Voto-ele...

[demian]

This is first and foremost a PR stunt by the BA City's goverment to push a goverment "innovation" bullet point.

[de_Selby]

I guess it would be easier to automate the counting. Still seems an odd solution though.

[demian]

And even that's not happening.

The machine also prints the vote on the ballot, and because of the known bugs in the system people are still counting them by hand.