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  1. nwlivewire

    nwlivewire DI Senior Member Showcase Reviewer Blood Donor Veteran Army Navy

    23 Jul 2015 #9
    "If it ain't broke - don't fix it!"

    If you keep trying to fix something that isn't broken, eventually you WILL break it!

    I swear, sometimes I think the smarter we get, the dumber we actually become....

    nwlivewire
     
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  2. nwlivewire

    nwlivewire DI Senior Member Showcase Reviewer Blood Donor Veteran Army Navy

    23 Jul 2015 #7
    Sounds like a very tight and controllable voting process.

    Though in the Middle East where they dip your finger in a dye, I suppose this might be in part because people can't read or write very well, so they have to use a dye system, too.

    Sometimes, these tried and true methods really do work better than the "new fangled" ways!
     
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  3. Rye83

    Rye83 with pastrami Admin Secured Account Highly Rated Poster SC Connoisseur Veteran Army

    18 Jul 2015 #1

    Poll automation faces 3rd Supreme Court petition
    Rappler
    VOTE-COUNTING MACHINES. A Filipino worker in a warehouse in Quezon City, east of Manila on May 4, 2010, loads precint count optical scan (PCOS) vote-counting machines into a truck to be delivered to polling precincts around Metro Manila. Photo by ...
    SC asked to stop Comelec dealInquirer.net
    SC asked to stop Comelec award of P1.72-B contract on OMR machinesManila Bulletin
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    Electronic voting machines are a terrible idea. The reasons for this protest is a ridiculous one (because the company that makes the machines is not Filipino owned :rolleyes:) but hopefully they keep these machines from being used in the elections. The only thing automated vote counting will do is make election fraud that much easier and harder to catch.
     
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