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Gore Vidal Savages Electronic Voting

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-to-think-about dept.

gribbly writes "aging author and social critic Gore Vidal savaged electronic voting in an interview with the LA Weekly. The interview deals mainly with (what's wrong with) the Bush Administration, but halfway down he says: 'We don't want an election without a paper trail...all three owners of the companies who make these machines are donors to the Bush administration. Is this not corruption?'."

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  1. Demand a paper trail! by Eraserhd · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sign the HR 2239 petition. It requires electronic machines to produce a receipt which is deposited in a lock box in case of a recount and mandates .5% of districts at random do a recount to verify accuracy of the machines.

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    Keep the freedom to vote.