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stevepal

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2. Exactly!

Mon Oct 16, 2017, 05:01 AM

Oct 2017

The point is that the vote needs to be not only verifiable, but VERIFIED.

The vote can be verified in several ways but the simplest, the cheapest, the most thoroughgoing, in fact, the gold standard for all elections is HAND-COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS.

This simple switch over would be the most important step the state of GA or any other state could take to restore democracy to America. The US needs to join Germany and most of the rest of the world in throwing out the computers and counting the vote by hand.

http://history.edri.org/edri-gram/number7.5/no-evoting-germany

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Exclusive: Details on Georgias test to use paper ballots in elections [View all] mfcorey1 Oct 2017 OP

They replaced one problem with another. Whether computers are involved with recording the votes or diva77 Oct 2017 #1

Exactly! stevepal Oct 2017 #2

Hand counting is subject to more error crazycatlady Oct 2017 #8

GA SoS, Brian Kemp (R), refuses to acknowledge Russian hacking of online GA voter files CottonBear Oct 2017 #3

Kemp: typical lying cheating Repube sleazebag. Yeah...he'll win. CurtEastPoint Oct 2017 #4

Oh, Kemp KNOWS he will win. He is in charge of the voting machines! CottonBear Oct 2017 #5

Bingo. dalton99a Oct 2017 #7

He was at the helm when millions of voter data leaked/were stolen. Oops. CurtEastPoint Oct 2017 #9

It's a start... Wounded Bear Oct 2017 #6