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eVoting & New Hampshire

Wednesday January 9, 2008
Transparency and believability. The one leads to the other when we're talking about votes. Counting votes.

Ohio is moving to paper ballots for its primary. New Hampshire may be wishing that it had. I'm waiting to see analysis of the vote versus the exit polls; those data are what usually jumpstart skepticism.

People: get a clue. Vote absentee! Demand a paper ballot at the polls. Better yet, demand that your legislators and CongressCritters get a clue, too, and end electronic black box voting. The 2008 presidential election is too important to have half the citizenry again believing it was stolen -- at whatever level -- because of flawed technology.

Read more: Ohio Mandates Paper Ballots for Primary and See This Treatise on Electronic Voting

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