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Article: A vote for paper ballots

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March 14, 2006
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TO KEEP elections fair and honest, we need paper ballots that can be double-checked.

The continued use of electronics-only voting machines rather than paper ballots or punch-card ballots is an invitation to fraud and stolen elections.

Traditional punch-card ballots, or optically scanned paper ballots, are safe and reliable. The problems with incomplete punch- outs, or hanging chads, are greatly exaggerated.

As an election lawyer, I have been involved in several election recounts over the years. When Alameda County switched in the early 1990s from cheap card stock to better quality paper or card stock, the hanging chad problem virtually disappeared. Better quality paper punches out much ...

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