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Stevepol

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2. The danger is much greater of losing privacy in the present set-up
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 08:40 PM
Aug 2015

As it is now, it's only the ones who have access to the machines or to the company officials who help program the machines and makes use of the memory cards, etc. to transfer the totals to the central tabulators, etc.

Beth Clarkson, for example, makes the point that her statistical check would not require anybody to reveal the names of any voter. She would only be dealing with the vote itself, the paper ballot or the touch screen print-out. That is part of her law suit presently being considered in KS.

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