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Subject: Re: Vote!
From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:12:59 -0300

At 6:34 PM -0600 8/12/05, Dave Balderstone wrote:

On 12-Aug-05, at 6:24 PM, Edward Zaremba wrote:
Thank God we are all not in Canada, A?
Well, we rarely hear about vote fraud here, and recounts are relatively simple.
You take the physical pieces of paper, and count them.
And amazingly, in a country of 35 million people, our national election results are tallied within 3 or 4 hours of the polls closing.

I confess, I don't understand how there is *any* advantage to any sort of automated vote process.

Yes, and any registered voter can go to the polling station and watch the initial vote count. Radical, eh?

 - web

P.S. A good article on this here, written by a US national.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031211.html

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  >Vote! (From: Roy Whelden <email@hidden>)
  >Re: Vote! (From: Dave Balderstone <email@hidden>)
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  >Re: Vote! (From: Dave Balderstone <email@hidden>)




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