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Article #870Re: Real Election Reform
From: TonyT
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:32
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:32
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What,exactly, does this have to do with DC dining? D Flint wrote: > What do you think about this and have you seen this popular site before? > > This was taken from a web site > http://www.afvr.org > > How can we safeguard the integrity of each vote? > Today we have technology that protects our financial systems, military > weapon systems and national intelligent organizations. These proven systems > can be combined in a way to issue serialized equipment to authorize > personnel for the dates and hours needed. Each would have their own level of > clearance to perform the tasks they are responsible for. Each action would > be recorded and verified with a higher levels of network authority and > again, only available during the hours and dates needed. Ballots would only > be printed after the voter has cast their vote but before they leave the > booth. If the voter made a mistake he could put the printed ballot into the > booth's scanner for correction. All ballots scanned at the booth would go > into a shredder and the voter could then correct his ballot on the screen > and reprint his ballots. Once the voter accepts the printed ballot he > submits his vote on the screen and takes the two ballots to the depository. > So two computer generated, serialized and scanner perfect receipts of the > completed ballot are printed.* One for the voter and one for the public > record. This would eliminate all the extra ballots that could be used for > unauthorized voting as well as any question of voter intent. Each piece of > equipment involved in the issuing of the receipt would be linked to the > serial# of that ballot and an electronic document would be generated that > exactly matched the two printed receipts. So the voter themselves has > validate the printed ballots, keeping one for themselves, while the other > electronic time-stamped document is deposited into an optical scanner used > as a secure depository. This second scanned count which should always match > the electronic count. This paper ballot could also be used for recounts if > needed. The voter could use the receipt to inquire about their vote in the > future. The stuffing of the ballot box or "finding ballots" would be > eliminated. With this system, if you find a ballot, you have to find the > voter that cast that ballot too. This is not so in any of the current > systems in place today nor have we ever heard such a system ever proposed. > http://www.afvr.org > > > > > > > > > > >
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