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13 Experts: Election Integrity in the United States
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by Erik Larson | November 1, 2008 at 08:32 pm
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Lots of relevant facts and good ideas for election integrity from these thirteen experts, any single suggestion would improve the system the way it's currently run. Essentitally, they're all saying transparency and accountability needs to be increased.
Number One thing any Citizen can do; make your voice heard. Blog, share your concerns with friends, family, neighbors and coworkers, and let the media and your representatives know, too.
We assembled a panel of leading election integrity (EI) experts and asked their advice on myriad aspects of the e-voting problem. Their recommendations are wide-ranging and should hopefully serve as a wake-up call, since candidates' political futures, not to mention the future of the U.S. and the entire planet, could be decided on error-prone and worse, easily tamperable electronic voting systems.
The question put to each of the experts was, "How can candidates best protect themselves from potential electronic voting problems and manipulation?"
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at 20:48 on November 1st, 2008
Erik Larson, there are some very good points here. It seems like they are all saying that it's best to record what you are doing, and have as much of a paper trail as you can. I think this sounds like good advice.
at 21:38 on November 1st, 2008
thx Amy, i heartily agree- a word of caution, though- paper trails are not paper ballots, and it's not just semantics; the ballot is what actually gets counted as a vote, and the trail is not the ballots. Certainly, it's good to get all kinds of documentation, paper records if possible, on all aspects of the election, if that's what you mean.
I hope you guys can keep these infernal electronic voting AND opscan machines out of Canada, they're a disaster here in the US.