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7 Findings and Conclusions
Pages 130-134

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... 7 Findings and Conclusions In articulating the questions presented in Chapters 4, 5, and 6, the committee developed a number of findings that it believes can help to clarify the nature of the debate over electronic voting systems and provide a framework for putting these questions into perspective. The committee believes that electronic voting systems offer potential for voting and election management that is an improvement over what has thus far been available.
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... FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS 131 efforts for election technologies; and ongoing efforts to educate election officials, poll workers, voters, and the general public about these new election technologies. Also, it must be recognized that the deployments of electronic voting systems in the past few years are likely to be just the beginning of a long period of adaptation to electronic technologies in election administration and management.
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... 132 ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS ABOUT ELECTRONIC VOTING any given system offered for sale lies on this continuum, not generalizations at either end of the range. At the same time, there are some technical realities that are exceedingly likely to persist over the long run.
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... FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS 133 · Legislators in many states have publicly aired many important issues related to electronic voting. In so doing, they have placed a considerable amount of useful information on the public record, and they have successfully balanced a variety of concerns in some of their legislative efforts.
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