To: expatpat
OTOH, it's not such a big deal to count paper-trail 'coupons' by hand since recounts aren't that frequent, and very-rarely statewide. Consider a simple hypothetical: a number of voting machines has been altered to count 10% of Bush votes and 50% of Nader votes as Kerry votes. How would such a thing be detected? Unless one happens to do a recount in an area served by such a machine, I would think such cheating would completely escape notice.
10 posted on
03/09/2004 6:56:26 PM PST by
supercat
(Why is it that the more "gun safety" laws are passed, the less safe my guns seem?)
To: supercat
I think you are underestimating the security built into the systems. I would suspect that that would be extremely difficult. More worrying is the possibility of misuse of the card which is inserted to allow the vote to be cast.
11 posted on
03/09/2004 7:04:45 PM PST by
expatpat
To: supercat
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