Maybe it's partially a 4th ammendment issue, but I beleive the First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press. So if the press feels harassed or intimidated by the government, the first amendment probably applies as well. Then again... IANAL.
My worry is that the general public won't believe the system is being tampered with unless an election is obviously manipulated. Until that happens, anyone who complains will be labeled a paranoid conspiracy theorist.
My main question though: Experts say that the easiest solution is to have these machines generate a paper trail. It's as simple as a printed receipt that the voter can examine and drop in a trditional voting box that can be used in manual recounts. This doesn't seem like a very hard implementation problem. Why haven't any of the voting machine manufacturers offered an optional printer? It seems like it would sell well enough.
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Maybe it's partially a 4th ammendment issue, but I beleive the First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press. So if the press feels harassed or intimidated by the government, the first amendment probably applies as well. Then again... IANAL.
My worry is that the general public won't believe the system is being tampered with unless an election is obviously manipulated. Until that happens, anyone who complains will be labeled a paranoid conspiracy theorist.
My main question though: Experts say that the easiest solution is to have these machines generate a paper trail. It's as simple as a printed receipt that the voter can examine and drop in a trditional voting box that can be used in manual recounts. This doesn't seem like a very hard implementation problem. Why haven't any of the voting machine manufacturers offered an optional printer? It seems like it would sell well enough.