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■ 15 February 2008 | 9:56 AM

No privacy at the polls

When I showed up to vote Tuesday for the presidential primary, my name was found on a list. A corresponding number next to my name was then programmed into a plastic card. I then inserted the card into the electronic voting machine and cast a ballot. Seems to me that it would be incredibly easy to track who is voting for whom under this system. So much for secret ballots.

Mike Wilson

Virginia Beach

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Electronic voting machines

Submitted by am81430 on Fri, 02/15/2008 at 12:28 pm.

are an awful idea. They are easily tampered with, and one can implement a virus in the machine that will change votes to a desired outcome. We need to go back to paper.