Reply #24: The Herald-Star (Steubenville, Ohio) - We must get elections right

[dzika]

Tuesday, December 28, 2004 — Time: 1:32:58 PM EST

We must get elections right


Absent evidence of outright and widespread voter fraud to hand George W. Bush Ohio in the November presidential election, this week's recount should be the chance for challengers to say, "Enough is enough."

We've said it many times before, but we've got to repeat it here: There are votes in every election that aren't accurately counted. Out of millions of ballots, it is a statistical impossibility, so long as man is responsible for creating and maintaining the system that counts the ballots, for everything to be absolutely perfect in every election.
That does not matter if the ballots are paper ones counted by hand or electronic ones tallied by computers, from punch cards to touch screens.

Does that mean every vote doesn't count?

No. Every elector must exercise the privilege as an American to go to the polls and cast ballots with the reasonable expectation that their vote will be counted.


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