Will Your Vote be Counted?

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A survey of 1600 scientists asked whether computerized voting was secure without voter-verified printed ballots, and the number saying no was 1600. Around a third of the districts in the US don't have voter-verified printed ballots. If your machines don't pass the smell test of computer scientists it may be a good idea to vote with an absentee ballot.

News polls must also be critically watched, e.g. most younger voters use cell phones but pollesters only call land lines. If polling creates any distorted expectation we would probably not notice if the results from the voting machines are also distorted. These are problems to be fixed, not a time to give up on democracy. One temporary solution for instance might be for people to organize and take their own polls both before the election and exit polls.

If anyone thinks this is a partisan issue they need only remember that primary elections are between members of the same party. And some of these elections have already been under the cloud of electronic voting.

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