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To: Lane3 who wrote (97675)	1/30/2005 11:52:54 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 793917

For itchy people, you could give them the option of maintaining an audit trail or not. Not really. From the perspective of accurate elections, an individual's vote is not purely his own business. That's not to say that I have any right to know how you voted but rather that I have a right to know that you are entitled to vote and your vote has been accurately recorded. This I have an interest in your audit trail. It makes no sense to put in place were we can verify the accuracy of some portion of the count. If the winner's edge is only a couple of hundred votes, we can tolerate a missing audit trail for no more than the difference in the count less one. Otherwise it's useless. Currently, the voting machines supplied by Diebold have no audit trail. There is no oversight as to who programmed those machines. The head of Diebold is highly partisan. You connect the dots. If in your system we allow people to vote, and vote once, and then erase an audit trail - it would be their choice. Like it would be their choice to not vote or if they did vote, they know that without an audit trail their vote could be hi-jacked - even though it would be highly unlikely in your system. In any case, I think the vast majority of the people would not mind if their vote had an audit trail. But then again, its up to the people. It doesn't have to be perfect. Five 9's would be good enough. If it were that close - it doesn't matter. It would be more accurate than major league umpires calling balls and strikes. The umpire will miss a few. Nobody is complaining. There is still alot of integrity in the game. That is not true for our national elections. Currently, the integrity is questioned. Your system does not have to be perfect.