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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mike bone (Hijacked) who wrote (2699)	9/18/2003 12:30:39 AM
From: Don Earl	Respond to of 20039

Ballot tampering was a problem long before electronic voting was even an idea. Absentee ballots are still a major source of manipulation. When was the last time you saw a school levy fail to pass? Are property owners ALWAYS in favor of seeing their property taxes go up? No offense, but I consider it naive to assume paper ballots are the be all, end all, fix for vote tampering. The ONLY way to eliminate the possibility is to make the results transparent to a degree that individual voters are able to verify their votes are counted as cast. No current system allows for that kind of transparency. A superstitious distrust of machinery isn't the problem. The problem is everyone has a price, and any system may be penetrated by the less than ethical. If law enforcement officers are able to convince drug lords they're dopers, and secret agents are able to convince foreign governments they have foreign interests at heart, what possible faith could you put in "bipartisan" vote counters? Pardon me for being blunt, but that strikes me as fuzzy headed thinking. Without a system to establish a one to one relationship between the voter and the vote, you still have a problem. Any other concept is wishful thinking of the worst sort.