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To: tallhappy
Great - all we need now is the data.

Any idea when they'll start loading the figures?

14 posted on 10/07/2003 1:24:23 PM PDT by skeeter (Fac ut vivas)
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To: skeeter
I think at 8 PM, so it is awhile.

I just wanted to get it posted here for people to know.

16 posted on 10/07/2003 1:27:09 PM PDT by tallhappy
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To: skeeter
Posting the data is the issue. Voters need to understand that there is no assurance that anyone's vote is counted, or, if there is a count for each registration, how that person voted. Governments understand how few people really know how computers work. The problem, though complex, must be examined or our political system is a fraud. The touch-screens, reputed to make it easier for the less educated, actually make an audit impossible. Punch cards can obviously create opportunities for corruption, but at least provide some physical record of a vote. What is more essential to a representative republic than that votes mean something? Except in the few precincts with paper ballots, there is absolutely no way to validate elections - no audit trail.

Can this be true? http://www.verifiedvoting.org or http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html or http://www.blackboxvoting.com/ are places to start. The issue is non-partisan. The first two sites are controlled by professors of computer science at Stanford and Bryn Mawr whose politics I don't know. If votes aren't tallied reliably, all of this political theater is just that: it distracts and confuses voters, preparing them with plausable arguments for the failure of their preferred candidate.
50 posted on 10/07/2003 5:32:02 PM PDT by Spaulding (Wagdadbythebay)
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