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Politicalboi

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8. The government should build

Reply to zipplewrath (Reply #6)

Mon Feb 20, 2012, 03:48 PM

Feb 2012

Specific buildings for voting and counting. Your idea is good and we should have a paper ballot to make sure it was correct. I think they should take head counts coming in, and going out, and they MUST match the total votes cast. And we should have the whole month of October till Nov to vote. Even make appointments.

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"For those who don't understand how fully observable, precinct-based, Election Night hand-counting [View all] midnight Feb 2012 OP

I have never heard a good argument against paper ballots. Gidney N Cloyd Feb 2012 #1

It would be ideal, but the logistics could be a problem dragonlady Feb 2012 #2

Logistics would only really be a problem to annabanana Feb 2012 #3

Exactly... midnight Feb 2012 #11

Only 20? Igel Feb 2012 #4

Canada counts every election by hand, on paper ballots, within a few days. byronius Feb 2012 #5

that's why the poster upthread stated we need the "bubble sheet" voting method... mwooldri Feb 2012 #7

I see your point... However, the problems from not counting by hand seem midnight Feb 2012 #9

Computer generated paper ballots zipplewrath Feb 2012 #6

The government should build Politicalboi Feb 2012 #8

Counting heads coming in and making sure they match the no. of votes is good and could be verified midnight Feb 2012 #10