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[Marcia <msmartin AT ccbeunet.br>]

How accurate would a paper trail be anyway?  We all know that one information 
could be sent to the printer, and another to the actual system/database.

How accurate was last presidential election in Florida? I guess we'll never 
really know.  If people want to fix the elections, there’s really no way of 
stopping it... In my humble opinion.




Quoting "H. Wade Minter" <minter AT lunenburg.org>:

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> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Thomas Beckett wrote:
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> > Rachel Cox wrote:
> > > Yeah, I'm not very excited about electronic voting at this point
> > > myself. I'm eager for the time when I can be, but right now there are
> > > just too many questions for me to be comfortable with it.
> >
> > Well in North Carolina at least, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.  The
> > paper ballot and optical reader system we now use (in Orange, Durham and
> > Wake at least) works great, and there's a physical ballot and audit
> > trail.  The ballot itself is simple and easy to understand.  I have even
> > witnessed a local election recount on behalf of the Democratic Party and
> > I think the system works well.  I would be extremely suspicious of any
> > effort to replace this system with anything else.
> 
> The big problem as I see it is that the big voting companies like Diebold
> are absolutely opposed to, and fighting tooth-and-nail to stop, any sort
> of audit trail for their computers.  They want zero paper trail for their
> voting.
> 
> Why on earth would anyone who wants fair elections be so opposed to having
> a paper audit trail?  That's what gets my suspicions up about e-voting.
> They want to take an unproven system and remove any sort of non-electronic
> accountability.
> 
> Sketchy at best.
> 
> - --Wade
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