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or a "paper trail".. Those two definitions are what the media ALWAYS calls it.. We don;t want receipts or trails.. WE WANT BALLOTS, that we can verify, and then drop into a ballot box inside the polling place.
Receipts have never been allowed, because in some ancient times past, people would "sell" their votes, and a receipt would be necessary to "prove" you voted for the person you were paid to vote for...so NO receipts..
In a perfect world, a touch screen machine would spit out a ballot that would have the names of the people you voted for, and a transaction number that corresponded with the same number showing on your screen.. the numbers could be randomized so that individual voters would not be recognizable...
At the end of the day, the disc or cd or whatever would be run and verified, and then a count of the "paper ballots".. The TOTALS should be dead on.. If NOT..PAPER WINS, because that is the record that the voter verified and deposited in the box.. The slips could actually be barcoded, and read with a barcode reader, to account for ALL the numbered slips...
Might it take a little while? Of course.. It would be infinitely cheaper to hire extra PEOPLE for a few days to tally and record the results..
I WANT correct.. I am not that concerned about Fast..easy..or fun :(
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