This is an assurance of democracy our nation can afford and should perform routinely. Electronic-only voting systems should be replaced with systems that generate a paper trail, and election results should be audited against the paper trail to ensure that election outcomes are correct.
There is still time to audit this election -- barely. States only have until Dec. 13 to give their final results to the Electoral College.
Americans should demand this simple step to ensure that the machinery of democracy worked. To add your voice, please sign this petition.
Ron Rivest is Institute Professor at MIT and was a member of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission Technical Guidelines Development Committee. Philip Stark, associate dean of mathematical and physical sciences at the University of California, Berkeley,was appointed to the board of advisers of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
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http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/40381-how-the-gop-flipped-and-stripped-yet-another-american-election
How the GOP Flipped and Stripped Yet Another American Election
By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
20 November 16
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"This year, Palast has reported that a new program called Crosscheck has been used by some 30 GOP secretaries of state to strip more than 1.1 million predominantly black, Hispanic, Islamic, and Asian-American citizens from the voter rolls.
"Numerous reports indicate that citizens were often confronted with photo ID requirements even where they were voided by the courts".reports indicate many citizens were directed by official websites to polling places that did not actually exist. This year Ohio secretary of state Jon Husted failed to distribute more than 1,050,000 absentee ballot applications to citizens entitled to them.
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According to a report by Richard Hayes Philips, extremely high turnouts for Trump in rural areas of Wisconsin "are not credible." Among other things, the vote counts in five Republican towns exceed the number of registered voters. ( www.freepress.org )
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Polling Indicators "pre-election polls strongly indicated a Clinton victory. Post-election exit polls showed her winning as well, most critically in the swing states whose Electoral College votes could have given her the presidency.
Exit polls are the accepted international standard for indications of election fraud and vote tampering.
In 24 of 28 states, unadjusted exit polls also showed Clinton with vote counts significantly higher than the final official outcome. The likelihood of this happening in an election that is not rigged are in the realm of virtual statistical impossibility.
In key Senate races in Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Missouri, exit polls also showed Democratic candidates winning by statistically significant margins, but then losing the official vote count.
Millions of dollars would be required to do meaningful recounts in states like Wisconsin, which may well have legitimately gone for Clinton and chosen a Democratic US Senator. Michigan's 4,800 precincts could cost up to $125 each to recount.
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