More importantly, neither the U.S. courts nor our legislative branch of government have acknowledged that, with this decision, the German Court put forth thehuman rights argumentthat meantprotecting a German citizen's right to see their votes counted, without specialized technical knowledge beingrequired as a priority over everything else; a decision,I believe,should also be appliedby our courts on behalf of American citizens.
Of course, we can expect to hear from voting machine vendors, members of Congress and many election officials their usual response to a request by citizens for any kind of change from the status quo -- "We've already spent billions of taxpayer dollars implementing these voting systems throughout the country and it would simply be too costly and impractical to get rid of them. I say,preserving and protecting a citizen's human rights inthe elections process --PRICELESS.
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