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(GA) No-Confidence vote earned by machines

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The problems - real and potential - are serious and need to be addressed. McKinney's vitriol aside, lack of confidence in our voting system is a cancer that eats at the very fabric of our democracy. Georgia's General Assembly, with the support of the governor and secretary of state, should not dally in taking steps to rebuild that slipping confidence.

Outlawing wireless components in voting machines, requiring tamper seals on all machines, mandating the use of voter-verified paper records and requiring auditing procedures would not be overly expensive; particularly when balanced against the confidence they would build.
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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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