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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-21-09 10:22 AM
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"...any software can be hacked." In Venezuela, they use OPEN SOURCE code--
code that anyone may review--and they also handcount a whopping 55% of the votes, as a check on machine fraud (more than five times the minimum needed to detect fraud).

THAT is the failsafe if you are going to use software to count votes--a very substantial audit, at minimum 10%. And nobody in the US is doing this. In fact, about half the systems in the US don't have any paper TO count. It's mindboggling.

In addition to having a transparent system, on its face, Venezuela's elections have been certified by every major international election monitoring group as transparent, fair and aboveboard. That's why they have universal health care and we don't.
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