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| | Name : | Will Haible | Organization : | Self | Post Date : | 9/29/2005 |
| Comment : | I believe, and insist the Voting Commission (sic) require, that there must be a basic minimum requirement and provisions for a paper record of ALL voting, regardless of other methods of vote casting and tabulation, eg. electronic, so that
two fundamental principles of voting
can be maintained:
- A voter has a record that he voted,
and how he voted, so his record can
assist in a recount if necessary.
- There is a record of votes to assist
in an investigation of voter fraud
should that be conducted.
I believe this is necessary because,
while new electronic voting methods can
be accurate and cost efficient in
recording and tabulating vote results,
these methods are still subject to error, they can be manipulated in or
outside the polling place, and most
importantly, the electronic records are much more difficult to verify if they have been manipulated. There is,
most definitely, solid evidence that
electronic voting methods can and have been manipulated. The problems of voter
fraud by electronic methods may be not
much worse than other voter fraud problems in the past, but they seem
much more difficult to unravel, to pre-
vent against, and to resolve than past
methods with paper ballots.
I believe the risk of voting fraud, as seen with present electronic voting methods and actual experience, is now
greater than with older simpler voting
methods.
We've operated for a long time with paper records that could be recounted, verified, and studied for many useful purposes, including most importantly
evidence of voter fraud.
It is now imperative that we retain paper records of voting. So that we can
ensure accuracy of voting while we
proceed with electronic methods that
obviously have many more years to mature so that voting can be accurate,
counted timely, and records available for recounting and review when needed.
Sincerely, Will Haible
Berleley California
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