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Festivito

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8. Yes, and all the ballots should be at the polling place on election day.
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 07:19 PM
Jun 2012

One should be able to walk into one's polling place, get one's own pre-mailed ballot and submit a changed vote.

The ballots should be kept on display until the longest term of office completes, unless undergoing recount of course. Then they can go to research institutions if wanted, or to anyone who does want them. The last persons able to discard ballots should be in government.

Ballots can be printed on plain old 8.5x11 sheets off an ordinary computer printer.

Valid ballots can be counted by machine after being stamped by an poll-worker's personal marred stamp made for that day with a trace element in the ink. And, the machine count of ballots poll-workers entered must match the number of votes in that poll-workers' list of voters. A poll-worker thumb print on each would be good as well.

Manual random and requested recounts are mandatory with a mandatory full manual recount if any error is found.

If contested or close, all ballots go online and are recounted there as well as recounting the paper.

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