[lbo-talk] RE: Diebold/Democracy

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Tue Oct 28 10:41:37 PST 2003


On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> 1. Fighting any perceived compromises in the vote tallying system
> peddled by Diebold & Co is rather easy - all it takes is to ask the
> voters to request absentee ballots.

How would that help, Wojtek? If we increased the absentee count from 1% to 15%, it still doesn't help us audit the election. All we can audit is the absentee ballots -- which are probably counted correctly in the first place.

This would only help if we got 100% to vote by absentee ballots. But surely that's impossible. It's by far easier to organize against against installing the electronic systems where already you have inertia and the money saved by not purchasing them on your side, so that many officials want to buy your arguments.

Michael



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