No Way to Recount Touch Voting Machines

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    Lame duck Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli disgraced the Attorney General’s Office with his partisan opinions concerning the provisional vote procedures in Fairfax County. Note paragraph 7 in this Slate.com article by Richard Hasen, where he points out that in touch screen voting machines (DREs) there is no way to conduct a recount.

    How can we be sure these machines count votes accurately? Answer: We can’t.

    .http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/11/virginia_attorney_general_s_race_how_democrats_could_win.html

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