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Re:In Georgia, a legal battle over electronic vs. paper voting by monocasa on Monday September 17, 2018 @10:58AM (#18006502)
There's also the question of how the printed ballots get counted.

If you put them all into a black box machine (or set of machines) that spits out a total at the end, you've recreated all the same issues.

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Re:In Georgia, a legal battle over electronic vs. paper voting by beat on Monday September 17, 2018 @11:39AM (#18006916)
No, you haven't. The issue with touchscreens isn't the machine total, but rather the lack of a mechanism for validating the machine total. Machine-read paper ballots can be and are sometimes hand-counted to validate the machines.
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