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• Social Studies > Government > Fraud in Voting > Paperless Voting
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• Social Studies > Government > Presidential Election 2016 > Democratic Party

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1. Computer-Security Experts Warn of Stolen Elections (MSNBC News)
   "The best minds in the computer-security world contend that the voting terminals can’t be trusted. Listen, for example, to Avi Rubin, a computer-security expert and professor at Johns Hopkins University who was slipped a copy of Diebold’s source code earlier this year. After he and his students examined it, he concluded that the protections against fraud and tampering were strictly amateur hour."
   
   "(The biggest buzz focuses on the 2002 Georgia gubernatorial election, won by a Republican underdog whose win confounded pollsters.) Suspicions run even higher when people learn that some of those in charge of voting technology are themselves partisan. Walden O’Dell, the CEO of Diebold, is a major fund-raiser for the Bush re-election campaign who recently wrote to contributors that he was 'committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes for the president next year.' "
   
   "To remedy the problem, technologists and allies are rallying around a scheme called verifiable voting. This supplements electronic voting systems with a print-out that affirms the voter’s choices. The printout goes immediately into a secure lockbox. If there’s a need for a recount, the paper ballots are tallied." 11-04

2. -01-30-08 John Edwards Drops Out of Presidential Race (PBS.org)
   "Former Sen. John Edwards suspended his campaign for president Wednesday, bringing to a close his fierce underdog campaign that had stressed a populist message of helping the underprivileged and struggling middle class." 01-08

3. Differences Between British and American Humor (Time.com)
   Americans "applaud ambition and openly reward success. Brits are more comfortable with life’s losers. We [Brits] embrace the underdog until it’s no longer the underdog.We like to bring authority down a peg or two. Just for the hell of it." 11-11

4. -Differences in Style Between Sanders and Clinton (Time.com)
   "The two are also waging very different campaigns. Clinton has played the cautious frontrunner, eager to get through the primary fight without committing herself to positions that would hurt her in the fall against a Republican opponent. Sanders, meantime, is cast in the role of the underdog with nothing to lose, attempting to change the terms of the debate by staking out bold positions."
   
   "The difference showed up at Sunday’s debate hosted by CNN in Flint, Michigan. The two Democratic contenders were asked whether they support fracking as a method of removing natural gas from the ground. Clinton delivered a nuanced answer explaining that she opposes it unless it meets strict conditions. She showed an understanding of methane release, the chemicals used in fracking and various regulations on the practice."
   
   "Her final answer? It’s complicated. 'By the time we get through all my conditions, I do not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place,' Clinton said."
   
   "Sanders did not hesitate. 'My answer is a lot shorter,' Sanders said. 'No, I do not support fracking.' " 03-16