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Lee-Lee

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5. It doesn't need to be banned, just have a paper audit trail
Mon Jan 16, 2017, 08:30 PM
Jan 2017

Here in NC we have electronic touch screen machines that print not just your final ballot, but every keystroke you make. You can watch the paper scroll by right next to your touch screen.

At random in every county after the election precincts are selected at random to be audited where the paper trail is compared to the electronic tally.

The precincts chosen are only chosen after the election in a public, random way so nobody knows before where the audit will be in every county:

This gives all the advantages of electronic balloting but with a real physical paper trail you can check in a partial audit or fully in a recount of a close race.

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Electronic voting backed by paper ballots (I like the scan system) is the best solution. Yo_Mama Jan 2017 #1
Thats what we have here in Oklahoma madokie Jan 2017 #3
Some states have recount laws when it is close, so no money needs to be presented. Yo_Mama Jan 2017 #13
NO, because the paper ballots never get seen, unless the PTB approve it. TheFrenchRazor Jan 2017 #10
+1, if we don't stop the hacking and voter suppression why in the hell talk about 18 !!!!!!!! uponit7771 Jan 2017 #2
We need my dream Amendment XXVIII 47of74 Jan 2017 #4
you didn't include outlawing electronic voting, so none of the other stuff matters. nt TheFrenchRazor Jan 2017 #11
Here's my dream Amendment XXIX, a.k.a, the Natural Personhood Amendment meow2u3 Jan 2017 #14
It doesn't need to be banned, just have a paper audit trail Lee-Lee Jan 2017 #5
you would be lucky to get the results from that 1 precinct reversed, if a deiscrepancy was found, TheFrenchRazor Jan 2017 #16
I've posted links to this article for the last 2 years,... Jimbo101 Jan 2017 #6
Enlightening Chasstev365 Jan 2017 #7
Anyone can lue or refuse to answer exit polls. I don't why people love dionysus Jan 2017 #8
exit polls are a check on the veracity of vote count totals; duh. and no, cheating can not occur TheFrenchRazor Jan 2017 #12
why not mercuryblues Jan 2017 #9
And optical scanners with cellular connectivity (so they can connect to the Internet). pnwmom Jan 2017 #15
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