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The New DU. Reply #42: I like omnidirectional skepticism, myself
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Sat Dec-23-06 09:51 AM
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| 42. I like omnidirectional skepticism, myself |
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Paperless DREs are a skeptic's nightmare because there is absolutely nothing useful to do with one's suspicions -- and because of the potential damage that just one person can do. But some of the hand count advocates really seem to romanticize that whole approach. There's something called the "democratic wish": the idea that We The People can just Make Things Work. In practice, some people always do more work than others, and there is no escape from the dialectic of trust and suspicion. (I just saw a proposal for 100% in-precinct hand counts -- with streaming video from every precinct. The mind reels.)
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