Gould said it would be preferable to have a system that provides a duplicate paper record of votes that voters can see as they vote, which is locked in a secured storage device in case recounts are needed. That is what she calls voter-verification.
In that case "you don't have to trust the bits inside the electronic machine - you can actually compare voter intent to electronic record," Gould said. |
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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...)