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JunkYardDogg Donating Member (618 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-29-05 03:50 PM
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33. I'm not advocating no paper receipts
I'm just thinking out loud how we're gonna get screwed on this and how it can have better safeguards written into it
If we can put our collective heads together, maybe we can come up with a safer standard which we can collectively present to state law makers (friendlies). Because, the standards are not really set yet,
let us fight for standards which are more protective of the sanctity of the vote process than are less protective. This really is an issue we MUST pursue and explore vigorously.
As I understand it, there is a provision that paper receipts must be issued, but there is no standard for what they say, or their accountability to the tabulation /auditing process.
As far as individual requests to investigate the E-Vote equipment, I'm really addressing that use in valid lawsuits, as in the Ohio/Arnebeck suit.
The problem being the standard involved-
Which is:
One must give evidence of:
1. Vote Fraud having been committed
and
2. The Amount of the Fraud committed was sufficient enough to have caused a difference in the final results of the election
This must be proved Before one can force the issue before the court of impounding the machines and back tracing the servers.
That's the BIG Problem.
That's what doomed the Arnebeck suit.
We have to change that.
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