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I would be fine if they had at least the same level of scrutiny as slot machines --- can we turn Citizens United around and argue that since dollars can be used to buy speech which influences votes, voting machine should have the same level of scrutiny/verification/auditing which applies to finance?

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There seems to be a news story every year about how someone won a jackpot or other large prize on a slot machine, only for it to be denied because the slot machine was "malfunctioning".

Small and large scale cheating happens in casinos and financial firms on a regular basis. We need a much better bar than that for votes.

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