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csziggy

(34,120 posts)
7. A LOT of people have told me they are voting absentee
Thu Nov 8, 2012, 02:56 PM
Nov 2012

Rather than use electronic voting machines. I like the optical scanners in our county (Leon, Florida) because we have paper ballots that can be counted for verification but the scanners expedite the original counts. (Even though our Supervisor of Elections participated in demonstrations of how those optical scanners can be hacked!)

Of course, no form of voting is valid unless you can trust and verify the people who control the ballots or machines AND verify the machines and software used..

We should have a minimum of two weeks of early voting, minimum of 12 hours a day. A three day Election Weekend with voting 24 hours a day for all three days. MANDATORY time off from every employer for voting sometime during the early and regular voting period.

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