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Holt institutionalizes secret first counts on optical scans and touch screens by offering paper trails on touch screens it deceptively calls "ballots" and Holt also substitutes post-election Illusions of 3% audits instead of 100% open counting on election day, and urges us to imagine the statisticians (government workers) rushing in to save the day by proving the government's own first count numbers to be wrong, when we've always had a post-election option like this called recounts and their track record of expense, untimeless and inadequacy is so legendary that even the Holt bill knows something has to be done about 100% recounts, but Holt comes up with an even more modest 3% post-election audit in place of first count checks and balances, and tells all of us non-scientists and non-statisticians that science and statistics will save the day so we needn't worry about a 97% reduction in the already-inadequate recount "right."

The "All or Nothing Approach:" Should It Apply To Democracy? 2007