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Faith Based e-voting in Georgia

Voters in the state of Georgia, USA are in a similar situation to those in Ireland, though a number of years ahead of us. The minister could do worse than take account of one voter’s comments that

Then I started to question the results. I kept saying, at first, that there were printers inside the machine and we can print it all out – there are safeguards…that there was some kind of printed verified vote that could confirm the elections results. But later on, I discovered, through all of my research, that we can’t get a recount on these machines …ever. All we can do is get a reprint and no matter how many times we do this we’ll get the same results because there is no paper trail.

The article quoted, from Common Dreams, also draws attention to the fact that “[the WTO] has been encouraging corporations to purchase public services including education, transportation, water, health, and obviously even voting itself. It’s a new and tragic form of colonialism.”