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  Grizzly, 15 Nov 2004 @ 8:37am

  
  

  Of Course

  Why do you think bush won both these elections? Because of corruption like this.

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  Curmudgeon, 15 Nov 2004 @ 12:50pm

  
  

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  I still don't understand it. Having electronic storage and computation, along with a voter-verified paper trail has got to be the most reliable and corruption-proof method ever. Far more than hand-written check marks, levers, punched holes, filled ovals, etc.

  If we then built a way of aggregating the data centrally (polling place-to-county, county-to-state, state-to-federal, or any similar thing) via XML, there would be vastly fewer errors, and fully verifiable (yet anonymous) traceability.

  This is, dare I say it, a rather trivial programming task, far simpler than financial transactions, etc. that occur millions of times each day. It just goes to show how governments love to avoid the obvious and make things overly complicated.

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