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Recommendations yesterday and some are so simple, you think that is obvious. and one is never have a voting system that doesn t have a paper back-up that you can t audit or check the machine numbers against the paper numbers. that is probably the most basic and important recommendation. the other is never have a voting system connected to the internet. isolating your voting roll and reblg administrati and the registration system from the internet. so there are basic rules we have to do. but the problem i have, as i ve said, i m not sure we can a smart hacker can get into just about anything. and the other thing chuck, everybody talks about it being decentralized. there are less thap a dozen vendors of voting machines in the country and i asked how many are there, and they didn t know. i think it is less than a dozen. an which of those are and which ones are foreign and i would like to know that because making ourselves feel comfortable because it is decentralized doesn t do muc ....
We re really doing well. so based on that, we should do pretty well and i hope so. but you have to be very vigilant. one of the things paper back-up voting. called paper. not highly complex computers. paper. and a lot of states are doing that. they re going to a paper back-up. and i think that s a great idea. we re studying it very closely. various agencies including homeland security are studying it very carefully. are you worried about russia trying to meddle in the mid-term elections? no. we ll counter act whatever they do. we ll counteract it very strongly. and we have back-up systems and we haven t been given credit to this but we re working very hard on the 18 election and the 20 election coming up. thank you very much. are you guys on the same page ....
Could in any way be corrupted? florida, of course, in 2000 had the hanging chads with the punch cards. that was a disaster. replaced by touch screens. that didn t work so well because the touch screens didn t have a paper back-up. now they have paper back-ups. you fill it in like the s.a.t. tests with a pen, feed it in with a computer and here s the most important thing. when it goes into a computer, those results are added up right there so we don t have to worry about a russian hacker or internet virus and i think you ll enjoy it, craig. in florida at $115 million that is spent on television ads, $60 million here in tampa and orlando. normally 79 miles apart. people are exhausted and people always say, as they get exhausted, i m moving the canada, whether he or she wins. well, here s an ad that s running. moving to canada? let me sell your house. a bit of humor today on a day ....
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