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RazzleDazzle

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Wed Dec-14-05 03:41 PM
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9. Whoa. Surely you of all people know that optiscans are not

problem (fraud) free, right?

The ONLY saving grace is the fact that they start with a Voter-Verified Paper Ballot. Otherwise, they're absolutely no better than touchscreens.

Please don't lead your people down the primrose path. If anything, you have a really good oppty, a teachable moment, to make everyone suspect computerized technology of any kind, which IMO is the appropriate attitude for voting systems. My strong preference would be paper and pencil -- well, okay, pen -- but I'd compromise with optiscan as long as everyone knows they're just as rigable and just as hackable, or close enough, as touchscreens.

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