I was talking to a guy with http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ on Friday he said how the May 1st was going to be all electronic count with scanning of votes. ORG are pressing for 0.1% of the votes to be recounted manually, to at least verify that the electronic counts are accurate, but they've been rebuffed with the reason that it would bring the wider results into dispute if they were not the same....
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Date: 2008-03-02 11:31 am (UTC)http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/01/22/devote-your-day-to-democracy-2-london-elections/