Reply #22: Absolutely amazing!!! These guys trust machines more than PEOPLE! [View All]

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The ballots the Republicans want excluded include those rejected by a machine and checked over by hand. The party calls this process "human enhancement."

This is amazing. I can't believe they look at it that way. So when a machine makes a mistake, in their minds, that is just tough cookies?

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State GOP Chairman Chris Vance said Saturday evening that this hand-counting of ballots violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution in a way similar to vote counting problems in Florida after the 2000 presidential election.

Doesn't having machines make repeated ERRORS violate the equal protection clause in a much more meaningful way? I say we should go back entirely to hand counting. Use teams of four: two repubs and two dems, and somehow, make it so they don't KNOW who the vote is for when they have to decide whether any particular vote is a valid one. Like a double blind study, nobody would be able to cheat, because they wouldn't know how'.