For scanning, ballots have to be printed on heavy,expensive paper, with special ink.Then they have to be kept in secure warehouses and trucked to the polls on election day.That costs lots of money,and we have to pay it upfront every time we have an election.So what?This is the cost of democracy.Ours works because people are willing to put up with losing -as long as they think they're getting an honest & accurate count. |
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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...)