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Edited on Sun Nov-21-04 02:13 AM by Philostopher
Sounds good to me. I understand that's the way they do it in Germany -- and all they'd have to do is impregnate the official paper with something, or run a metallic strip across it (like they do legal tender, these days) or put an ID chip in each sheet. The technology is there to do this perfectly securely.
They could even mail the ballots from the precincts to each registered voter ahead of time. Do it before the registration deadline, maybe about six weeks before the actual election, so people who didn't receive a ballot had time to get their registrations straightened out.
They could even give people the option to mail them back or deliver them on Election Day, depending on their preferences.
The system we have is stupid, nonstandard and too easy to cheat. The reason they're using all this 'technology' is, of course ... that it's nonstandard and too easy to cheat.
But you probably knew that.
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