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Paper records, however, are not a panacea that solves all problems with voting machines, experts warn. Human error can also skew results, for example, and under current standards, voting machines can be approved for use even if 9 percent of them are expected to fail on Election Day. The Brennan Center experts even found ways for elections to be thrown by altering the software that printed out paper records.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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