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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brent Allsop via extropy-chat<br><b>…</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'>Great post, Brent, thanks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>…Here is a table from that MIT paper posted by Stuart:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=563 height=111 style='width:5.8645in;height:1.1562in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D6E8E0.C78BE200"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>…This table is completely backwards. The paper ballots are the ones that are not "Voter-verifiable", simply because that is too inefficient. No one voter can count all the paper ballots….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>No one voter must count all the paper ballots. We can have armies of volunteers doing that. They can be double counted: a bin is counted, recorded, volunteers take that bin to another table at random, never having eyes of several volunteers taken off of that bin, counted again elsewhere, bin taken to storage with volunteer witnesses after second counting, the two results compared, if they agree, then those totals are recorded and that bin is moved to long term storage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>This is so simple, I am really surprised no one has thought of it. Oh wait, that’s how it was done before voting machines came along, creating dangerous doubt in the minds of the voters that the system is flawed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>At the state level where elections are controlled, we could have a movement to true the vote. The good guys want a true reliable election, so the good guys will embrace the notion, and there ya go: bipartisan and nearly unanimous support for truing the vote.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:106%'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>