Reply #7: It's the AUDIT, not the paper that matters. [View All]

NH uses Diebold optiscans, so there is paper. Also I think about 40% of the vote is hand counted. It's the other 60% (Some claim 80%) that's the problem.

BUT (and this has been said a thousand times on DU I'm sure)

IT IS JUST AS EASY TO HACK THE OPTISCANS AS IT IS THE TOUCHSCREENS!!!!!!!!!

If you have paper AND YOU DO A GOOD AUDIT, I'd agree with you.

In this case, who knows what the actual results are? Unless there's an audit, nobody can be sure. And that's the whole point. If you can't be assured that somebody like Ken Hajjar is not rigging the election, it's not possible to have a democracy. It takes the CONSENT of the governed. When the votes are counted in secrecy WITHOUT VERIFICATION YOU CAN'T HAVE A DEMOCRACY.

It's as simple as that. 2 + 2 = 4. It has nothing to do with Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or John Edwards or any other candidate. It's a TOTALLY NON-PARTISAN ISSUE.

See my post about Ken Hajjar:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x489137