Paul: You said:
You argue we should only use paper ballots to make your hand-counting easier, to which I would say we should only use electronic ballots that won't end up in a landfill or be changed by the primary hand-counter before you get to "verify" them. [endquote] How is the primary handcounter going to steal or change ballots when he is observed by a large array of video-cameras, and by a close-up set of observers from all parts of the political spectrum. (If you want this to have any legitimacy, don't take it upon yourself to decide which parties are the "major parties". ) But the ditching, in a computer, of a vote whose only existence involves the states of transistor-switches in that computer, or maybe magnetic polarities in a hard-drive--preventing that kind of count-fraud would be considerably more difficult. I repeat that I don't oppose machine-counting if it can be made as secure as handcounting can be. Mike Ossipoff .
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