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Crash2Parties

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4. America chooses to be this way
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 01:27 AM
Apr 2016

It'd be easy to go back to paper optical scanner ballots. They can be verified and tested and the entire election can be run backwards to match a vote to a voter.

It would even be easy to make an electronic voting process that would be audit proof, meaning every vote could be verified and proof of tampering or none could be verified & each vote could be tamperproof and verifiable.

This isn't nuclear physics; it is basic techniques used in financial transaction processing.

We - our government - chooses repeatedly to go with a method of voting that is insecure, unreliable, and unverifiable.

We - the People - do nothing.

Conclusion: America doesn't really care about our own vote.

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