Old Weird Ward
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Tuesday, March 09, 2004
- - - - - Voting in Georgia - - - - -
Come to find that here in Georgia, the voting machines are touch-screen, and there is no paper receipt listing how you voted.
Sounds like a king-sized recipe for large-scale fraud to me.
This suggestion sounds good to me. Disclosure: I don't remember who suggested it, but it sounds like a Real Good Idea:
When you vote the following occurs:
1. Make your choices on the touch screen.
2. The machine creates a card with your choices marked in in black ink.
3. You review the card. If it doesn't match what you want, turn it in for destruction (witnessed by you), get a new card, and try again.
4. Drop the card into the ballot box.
If there's a contested election, the audit trail is preserved.
With the current system, I'd be real inclined to check the votes listed against the actual TOTAL population of the county.
But, that's just me, a DamYankee with a nasty, suspicious mind. Can you say Chicago?
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