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Election Reform

madamesilverspurs

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10. From someone who knows more about the subject than I do:

Reply to Stevepol (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 07:58 PM

Nov 2015

When it comes to balloting, until we can be certain beyond even the remotest shadow of doubt that a system is tamper-proof, we would be foolish to rely on computers. Paper ballots that can be counted by hand may be cumbersome and the counting may be time-consuming, but democracy requires reliable accuracy more than expediency.

That comes from someone who started in IT through an OJT program in high school and retired from upper level IT management after thirty years in the field.

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Anybody found to have deliberately falsified an election should get a long prison term. [View all] Stevepol Nov 2015 OP

Election reform HassleCat Nov 2015 #1

There are lots of ways to stuff paper ballot boxes, what would make the paper boxes tamper proof? Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #2

Try locks and armed guards, who are bonded, etc. 99th_Monkey Nov 2015 #4

Yea, right, that does not work either, the toich screens are under lock and key also, some people Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #6

Well then, vote by mail w/ paper. duh. 99th_Monkey Nov 2015 #7

I am not the one who wants all ballots recorded on paper and claim all voting methods are not Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #9

A thousand guards on the machines will make no difference. Stevepol Nov 2015 #12

Yeah, but it can't be done remotely from a wireless laptop in a parking or from a rented office GoneFishin Nov 2015 #8

You mean touch screens that directly records votes, don't you? eridani Nov 2015 #3

One simple innocuous law would do it : 1 day in jail for each adulterated vote, mandatory sentence. GoneFishin Nov 2015 #5

Excellent idea. Stevepol Nov 2015 #11

From someone who knows more about the subject than I do: madamesilverspurs Nov 2015 #10

The only way to make an all electronic system 'tamper-proof' RichVRichV Nov 2015 #13

I would like to see....Life - Long prison terms for it. yourout Nov 2015 #14