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In reply to the discussion: Wasn't sure whether to believe the Anonymous/Rove story,until the reaction telling us to shut up @it [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Not saying it's easy, but it's definitely something we can, and should, do.
Neither the DRE's, the scanners, nor the tabulators should be trusted.
Off the top of my head, the hand-count for random precincts might suffice, though I doubt that I'm seeing all of the potential problems with this. I'd rather hand-count everything.
We can deal with rogue counters that cheat. The counting should be under constant video surveillance. What we can't deal with are un-verifiable electronic results. That seems like a no-brainer, especially considering what kind of interests control our voting equipment. Also, the scale of any fraud that comes from biased humans counting votes would be much smaller than the scale of possible electronic fraud.
Finally, and I know this is obvious, but from some posts I've seen it seems worth saying: a paper trail is only useful if the paper ballots are actually counted.