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Originally Posted by Seaver
There is a company who makes the Scan-Tron scanners, which have been used by MANY states in the past including my own. These scanners read the pencil marks and count the votes mechanically. It would be easy to set these up for fraud, even easier than it would be for the voting computers. However no one questions those, could it be because they voted in a Democratic president before? I dont know, I think the whole freak out was unwarranted in the first place.
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I think the key difference between a Scantron and a Diebold model is that there's physical evidence of the vote with Scantron. A human being could come back and manually recount, if needed. Most Diebold models don't even cough up a receipt--your vote goes off into the ether and you sort of have to hope and pray that it gets counted accurately.