Scientists question electronic voting

[Barney Wolff]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:50:44AM -0600, (Mr) Lyn R. Kennedy wrote:
> 
> Paper ballots, folded, and dropped into a large transparent box, is not a
> broken system. It's voting machines, punch cards, etc that are broken.
> I don't recall seeing news pictures of an election in any other western
> democracy where they used machines.

Surely you jest - where else did the term ballot-stuffing come from?

The key, imho, is >=2 independent means of counting the votes.  Online,
as each vote is cast, and a paper trail, for later reconciliation.
It's hard for both to be skewed by the same amount, and differences
will both raise suspicion and give an order of magnitude of the fraud.
That seems to be the direction the experts are heading.

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