[Magdalen] speech

[Grace Cangialosi]

I think at least by the 2020 election, most places are putting some kind of system in so there will be a paper backup. I know we’ve already done that.

> On Sep 8, 2018, at 5:34 PM, Roger Stokes via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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>> On 08/09/2018 22:10, Michael Bishop wrote:
>> What complicated ways! We Brits are happy to simply collect a voting slip from the poll clerk and then go into the polling booth and mark an X in pencil by our chosen candidate's name, then fold it and go back to the clerk and place the slip in the ballot box. At tghe end of the voting, the boxes are brought together and the votes counted by hand. No machines to go wrong! Why reinvent the wheel?
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> In some cases it's a little more complicated. Next May I will have to mark a first and a second preference for Mayor (we have an elected executive Mayor here) and on a separate paper two crosses for my two choices for councillor. Some areas have a (civil) Parish Council. If there are more candidates than vacancies, which does happen in some areas, then the electors have as many votes as there are places up for election. The principle, though, is the same - a simple paper-based system. I understand that in some US states there is no paper trail as a final reference. That could be important if there's an electrical or electronic issue or the machines (and it has been alleged that this could happen) fail to record all the votes. The firms that produce the machines and the software are more likely to support one party than the other.
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> Roger