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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (23816)	12/28/2004 2:34:58 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Respond to of 90947

Oregon has an all mail in ballot election. They seem to find it works well. I think that properly executed absentee ballot systems are fine. King County had the signature problem an a few hundred ballots out of a million. Those problems were fixable by going to the registration records. I don't think it's any harder to commit fraud by registering in several precincts and then voting several times on election day. But really I don't think that is where we need to focus on fraud. There is far more potential for abuse with e-voting that has no paper trail. Can you explain to me how those precincts in Ohio that used e-voting had 5% more votes for Bush than would have been expected based on 2000 results and exit polls? Exit polls are very accurate, to within a percent or two. They're used to verify 3rd world elections in order to detect fraud. Where there's fraud lets all work together to extinguish it. Orca