[lbo-talk] whether or not a paper trail was in place

[/ dave /]

Michael Pollak wrote:

> I may be wrong, but my belief is a paper trail is created by printing 
> out ballots that the voter looks at, checks to see that they're right, 
> and throws in a ballot box.  I don't see how you can hack that.

In the post-industrial U.S. capitalist system, the hack is at the level 
of the human cognitive apparatus. A cross-platform patch sufficient to 
the magnitude of the problem has yet to be developed. But it will be 
sooner in coming when the programmers understand and accept that any fix 
needs to be - doh! - compatible with the existing code.

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/  dave  /