1/Why can't BMD printed ballots be trusted as an expression of voter intent? Because voters won't notice fraudulent outputs of compromised BMDs. It's the most widely replicated experiment in election security dating back a decade or more when ppl were concerned about VVPAT...
2/...as summarized in the NAS "Securing the Vote" report (nap.edu/25120): without complete record of votes expressed, voters would be unable to recall all of their prior choices.
3/Furthermore, hundreds of studies over 100 yrs point to fundamental limitations of human memory that would inhibit ballot verification by voters: (read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=…): "An important characteristic of the factual data base of memory is its remarkable reliability."
4/All of which means that cheating is impossible to detect because the original expression of voter intent has been lost & replaced by machine-markings. If the machine has been compromised, fraudulent ballots will be swept into the audit trail and counted as if they were valid
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