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Saving our elections: America's once proud and trustworthy elections are being undermined, but concerned citizens can take steps to restore the integrity of our electoral process.
The electoral problems that have been simmering in America for a long time and that surfaced in the 2000 Gore/Bush race haven't gone away. Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich has recently urged scrapping that state's recently-purchased electronic voting machines and replacing them with paper ballots for this upcoming election because of technical and human "problems" with the machines in the primaries. America's once proud and trustworthy elections are being undermined. Ballots are increasingly being counted behind closed doors or inside electrical circuitry without verification by public scrutiny.
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