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Perspective: Every Vote Counts, Right?
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Most of the attention during the current political season has focused on questions such as whether Arnold, "The Governator," will be re-elected in California or whether Barack Obama will steal the start of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign thunder.
But setting aside political-celebrity hype, the bigger question is: Are the mechanisms in place to ensure accurate election results?
Prior to the 2000 presidential election, who would have foreseen that a national election in the United States could hinge on a few hundred votes? Prior to the hanging chad era, any potential inaccuracies or irregularities in vote counting did not capture major attention from our first-world nation.
We now know that every single vote in that election truly mattered and election accuracy was likely not achieved. The United States experienced weeks of uncertainty about the choice for our next president while election officials pored over the ballots. All the while, the country endured multiple lawsuits all the way up to the United States Supreme Court.
At this point, only New York and Minnesota ban wireless...
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