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Originally Posted by KAPital PHINUst
Because with technology data can be more easily manipulated than with paper ballots and be less likely to leave an audit trail. I actually saw video of a congressional testimony for an electronic ballot contracting company where the contractor was being asked questions on whether the data could be manipulated and he was saying yes it could.
I wouldn't be so quick to give credence to electronic ballots if I were you.
I'll leave you all with this quote:
"Those who cast the ballots decide nothing. Those who count the ballots decide everything." - Joseph Stalin.
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Why can't there be both? An electronic vote with electronic back up (onsite and offsite) AND paper documentation (for the voter and for the election board). I don't understand why that is so difficult? My pocket calculator is smarter than the average voting machine! Frankly, I think it is a ploy by the politicians and voting machine manufacturers to keep the public and local governments spending money that they should be spending elsewhere....