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I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

Avi Rubin

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Avi Rubin
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: November 8
Engineer
University Professor
Manhattan
Kansas
Aviel David Rubin
Trusted
Voting
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It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.
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