Reply #119: So what? We SHOULD hand-count every election. [View All]

[JackRiddler]

The reasonable, practical, realistic assumption, based on history and human nature, should be that:

Every election has the potential for wrong-doing. Every vote should have a secure paper record, and every result should be automatically recounted by hand.

The cost of this would certainly be less than the consequences of corrupt government. To take the most obvious example, an automatic recount policy would have been far less than the costs of the disaster we have experienced since the fraudulent election of 2000 (which would have been reversed had the Florida recount not been stopped by an unconstitutional decision of the Supreme Court).