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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 07:23 PM EDT |
...inaccurate.
Voting machine fraud is trackable by, eg, machines which
have a tracking feature like a physical ticket with an
anonymized ID code attached that allows review in an online
database. This probably doesn't happen in the US. There
have been statistical anomalies, but no real evidence, IMO.
The potential for significant, systematic abuse of current
electronic voting systems is real and should be fixed.
Voter ID's only track whether or not someone is either
voting multiple times or not authorized to vote. As far as
anyone can tell, this basically doesn't happen. At the
moment, voter ID laws are primarily intended to
disenfranchise minority voters by making it harder to vote.
My gut is that requiring some sort of ID to register to vote
is reasonable, but that requiring ID on election day
probably does more harm than good by making voting results
match the actual will of the people less closely.
--Erwin[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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