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To: Juli who wrote (35192)11/14/2000 4:10:46 PM
From: Troutbum  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
Well, of course machines can be rigged. But how do you interpret a voter's intent from a punch card? Every time it is handled, the chance for errors grows bigger. Why do voting districts use punch cards? Paper ballots eliminate the "chad" problem and can be hand counted with very little chance for damage to the ballot. Not so with punch cards. Now why would heavily Democratic voting districts use a ballot that can cause so much controversy and lend themselves to manipulation by hand counting? It makes absolutely no sense to me.



To: Juli who wrote (35192)11/15/2000 10:12:39 AM
From: James Strauss  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
Juli:

I agree that all forms of voting apparatus have the potential of being rigged... All we can hope for is that the better person wins more often than not... Perhaps, in the future, we'll have some kind of electronic process that defies tampering... Until then, we should at least require all states to have a standard ballot and voting process...

Jim


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