[EL] Secret signatures and secret ballots

[Bev Harris]

Below is an example of a propaganda technique called asserting the foregone
conclusion (yep, it's given its own heading in the manuals I've seen, one of
which was created for the U.S. military):

>                 But given that we do have absentee voting, and are unlikely
> to stop having it

This is not a healthy kind of statement for a society that values public action,
but it's a great statement to dissuade a population from trying to do anything.

Just one more point; whereas Mr. Volokh indicates that absentee voting can
produce fraud in the form of a vote-buying scheme, the larger fraud in absentee
voting takes place when someone with inside access inserts votes into the pool
using the names of legitimate but irregular voters, without their knowledge.

Best,

Bev Harris
Founder - Black Box Voting
http://www.blackboxvoting.org

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