Because You Are Human in 2008: Part One

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Voting Machines Vs Human hand counting

Research at Princeton University has provided that some voting machines can be doctored in under one and a half minutes. Just go to their web site (address given at the end of video) and look at their investigation yourself.

Democracy requires fair elections, elections that people see are impartial.

The recent incidents in Kenya provide a example in what can happen to a society when voters consider their election to be unfair.

While it is true that in elections, human hand counting of paper votes takes a longer time to get a result than the use of
voting machines, however it is more difficult to corrupt the result.

Even if people are slightly unhappy that their candidate didn't win,they accept the result and get on with their lives as has happened over so many paper ballot elections in the past.

Hand voting also gives some extra employment to members of the local community.