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Post Number: 5529
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? 
Votes: 1 | | Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 4:45 am: | |
One more comment: Regarding Kurt's answer that this all boils down to trusting the election officials and those they consort with:
Let's accompany that statement, which is basically true, with the next statement: Elections didn't used to be based solely on trusting elections officials, and they cannot be based on trusting elections officials any more than the safety of the bank vault can be based on trusting the night watchman.
When we had hand counted paper ballots, the nature of the checks and balances made it very difficult (not impossible, but difficult) for an insider to tamper. With computerized voting and insider owns the election, should he choose to.
That's a not-so-subtle change that elections officials don't want to talk about. When you had commercially printed, serial-numbered ballots, all of which had to be accounted for, and you had strong chain of ballot custody, plus public hand counting at the polling place BEFORE the voted ballots were transported back to headquarters, and the poll workers also accounted for every ballot by serial number, it was darn hard for even an insider to game the system.
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"Regardless of size, just 1-3 people do all the work in any group. Better to have 10 groups of 10 people than one group with 100 people. That way, at least 10 people will get things done."
(-- John Brakey, an Arizona citizen)
You own your government, not the other way around. This is your task: Pick 1 thing and just DO IT. Then lead, mentor or organize 9 people to do the same thing.
Citizen Tool Kit to Take Back Elections:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.pdf
Begins 8/1/06
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