The most important thing about this recount is that all votes in Minnesota are cast on paperà ‚¬"mainly on op scan forms,that get read by computer.When the votes have to be recounted,there are paper ballots that can be inspected.In states that have paperless electronic voting,this cannot be done.The deliberate way the state is reviewing the ballots is not a weakness in the stateà ‚¬ „ s democracy, but a sign of health... |
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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...)