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Donald	Feb 27 2006, 04:22 AM
Elite member Posts: 454 Group: Trusted Member Member #8 Joined: September 2, 2005	Voting should leave a paper trail. Any form of electronic voting that does not leave a simple, verifiable paper trail is just ASKING for trouble. When I vote, I should be able to see a PAPER copy of my vote go into a box, and know that if anyone questions the electronic version, the paper recount will confirm my vote. Note that in the big US scandle 6 years ago, the regions of the country that used paper ballots with little ovals that you scribbled in were able to do recounts in a few hours, and the recount totals came out exactly or very near to the original counts. Now, of course, these ballots are being read by machine, so the readers could be hacked, BUT, since the ballots can also be easily read by humans, it's very easy to do spot checks to confirm that the machines are counting accurately. If you go with a completely digital voting system, you lose most of your checks and ballances.


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