Reply #21: If you want things to be simple, heres a suggestion...

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Do away with proprietary software and use open source.

I develop software myself and I cant imagine why a simple addition and subtraction formula has to be "secret"...especially when it involves something as important as voting.

The point of a recount is pointless... an electronic recount will give you the same electronic count failure as before.

Some things should not be computerized and voting is at the top of the list.

You mentioned ATM machines... nobody worries about those because you know and I know exactly, to the penny, how much money we have in our accounts. Any discrepancy would be noted and the alarm would sound. Voting is anonymous and secret by design so there is no way to know if the tally is right or wrong.