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A Way to Restore Confidence in Elections

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South Florida Sun-Sentinel

VOTING

 

A Way to Restore Confidence in Elections

 

By Steven F. Freeman and Joel Bleifuss

 

October 30, 2006

 

Widespread concern over recent reports from Princeton University on Diebold machine susceptibility to tampering, and from New York University on e-voting more generally, confirm what computer scientists have long known and contended: There is little reason for confidence in election results obtained from electronic voting machines.

 

Yet voters in the United States are denied the one powerful technique that might restore confidence in election results -- an independent exit poll.

 

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Steven Freeman is a professor at University of Pennsylvania and the co-author of Was The 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? with Joel Bleifuss.

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Why Barack Obama will be the Next President..by a Landslide by Robert Singer on Saturday, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:23:03 PM
why by Angelo on Sunday, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:20:19 PM
Exit Polls are the best way to guard against election fraud, by Mark Adams on Sunday, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:39:45 PM
Conditional love by Alan Williams on Sunday, Oct 26, 2008 at 1:46:37 PM
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