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Re: Two questions for the Conservatives and/or Republicans out there
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 9 Oct 2006 16:17:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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Do you trust Diebold’s touchscreen-based voting machines to record an
accurate tally of votes?
Why?
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Why not, Dave!? There can’t be cheating if the machines could be rigged so that
it doesn’t know which candidates are under which button (if that is your
concern). It would be like a double-blind study. Surely you aren’t implying
that the technology doesn’t exist to competently carry out the task when we’ve
already, on multiple occasions, put men on the moon (who don’t blow their
lines;-)
Or, how about this: I enter my SS#, I enter my vote. That way there is a
permanent record of how I voted. But then, that could be seen as an invasion
of privacy, so the permanent record thing might not be such a hot idea (except
for threatening elementary children of course;-)
I guess the bottom line is whether one trusts our government. I know it is
crazy to do so, but at the same time, it is crazy not to have a certain level
of it. For instance, giving our military all of the stuff that can blow up the
earth and trusting that they don’t actually do it.
JOHN
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