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To: zeugma

Nope. More likely to have issues with jammed printers or toner or paper running out than being able to get more ballots delivered within the county to keep a good backup.

And all that removable media and coded tech stuff is just calling for corruption.

Plain, old-fashioned hand and paper counts and tallies with plenty of locals observing is the way to go.


33 posted on 12/06/2020 3:50:30 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker
Plain, old-fashioned hand and paper counts and tallies with plenty of locals observing is the way to go.

None of this precludes hand counting. In fact, I'd strongly recommend random spot checks where hand counts are compared against machine tallys.

One thing I didn't mention, which I'm probably going to be adding to the document is the initial validation steps. As designed, it would be trivial to boot up the computer, and have the initial values validated against a printed or electronic document that would demonstrate that the card was virgin, and in it's initial state. It would, as a part of its boot process display those values, and any observer would be able to see what the initial state of the machine was. A similar screen would be displayed, stored and possibly printed when the voting is over. This would be the initial indication of the machine state.

59 posted on 12/06/2020 12:36:16 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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