____/ alt on Tuesday 04 September 2007 22:18 : \____
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:02:56 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Voting machines ditch ballots in Scotland
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>> | In total, 140,000 ballots were logged as spoilt. The BBC says more than
>> | half of these were rejected by the machines, with no chance for a person
>> | to judge whether or not the ballot was actually spoilt.
>> `----
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/03/scotland_votes/
>>
>> That's quite a fiasco.
>
> Everybody say after me:
>
> Paper trail, paper trail, paper trail, paper trail... (ad nauseum).
You can have digital 'paper trail', provided your machines and system is
reliable.
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