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From the Ted Talk by David Bismark: E-voting without fraud

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To make sure as few things as possible go wrong, we have all these procedures around the election. So for example, you come to the polling station, and a poll soiattn worker asks for your ID before gnviig you a ballot form and asking you to go into a voting booth to fill out your vote. When you come back out, you get to drop your vote into the ballot box where it mixes with all the other votes, so that no one knows how you voted.

Well, what I want us to think about for a moment is what happens after that, after you drop your vote into the blaolt box. And most people would go home and feel sure that their vote has been counted, because they trust that the election system works. They trust that eeolticn wrrkoes and election observers do their jobs and do their jobs corlecrty. The ballot boxes go to cionnutg places. They're unsealed and the votes are poured out and laboriously counted. Most of us have to trust that that happens correctly for our own vote, and we all have to trust that that happens correctly for all the votes in the election. So we have to trust a lot of people. We have to tsurt a lot of procedures. And sometimes we even have to trust computers. So imagine hundreds of millions of voters casting hundreds of millions of votes, all to be counted correctly and all the things that can possibly go wrong causing all these bad headlines, and you cannot help but feel extasehud at the idea of trying to make ectlonies better.

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To make sure as few things as possible go wrong, we have all these procedures around the election. So for example, you come to the polling station, and a poll _______ worker asks for your ID before ______ you a ballot form and asking you to go into a voting booth to fill out your vote. When you come back out, you get to drop your vote into the ballot box where it mixes with all the other votes, so that no one knows how you voted.

Well, what I want us to think about for a moment is what happens after that, after you drop your vote into the ______ box. And most people would go home and feel sure that their vote has been counted, because they trust that the election system works. They trust that ________ _______ and election observers do their jobs and do their jobs _________. The ballot boxes go to ________ places. They're unsealed and the votes are poured out and laboriously counted. Most of us have to trust that that happens correctly for our own vote, and we all have to trust that that happens correctly for all the votes in the election. So we have to trust a lot of people. We have to _____ a lot of procedures. And sometimes we even have to trust computers. So imagine hundreds of millions of voters casting hundreds of millions of votes, all to be counted correctly and all the things that can possibly go wrong causing all these bad headlines, and you cannot help but feel _________ at the idea of trying to make _________ better.

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Original Text


To make sure as few things as possible go wrong, we have all these procedures around the election. So for example, you come to the polling station, and a poll station worker asks for your ID before giving you a ballot form and asking you to go into a voting booth to fill out your vote. When you come back out, you get to drop your vote into the ballot box where it mixes with all the other votes, so that no one knows how you voted.

Well, what I want us to think about for a moment is what happens after that, after you drop your vote into the ballot box. And most people would go home and feel sure that their vote has been counted, because they trust that the election system works. They trust that election workers and election observers do their jobs and do their jobs correctly. The ballot boxes go to counting places. They're unsealed and the votes are poured out and laboriously counted. Most of us have to trust that that happens correctly for our own vote, and we all have to trust that that happens correctly for all the votes in the election. So we have to trust a lot of people. We have to trust a lot of procedures. And sometimes we even have to trust computers. So imagine hundreds of millions of voters casting hundreds of millions of votes, all to be counted correctly and all the things that can possibly go wrong causing all these bad headlines, and you cannot help but feel exhausted at the idea of trying to make elections better.

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