Actually, I was sort of trying to be maximally skeptical about the accuracy of the whole process. So indeed, I would ask, "That's nice, we can make sure that the numbers on the machine are reported accurately. But how do we know that the machines are tabulating the numbers accurately in the first place? More specifically, how can I (as an average private citizen, not a poll watcher or election judge) simply verify that my vote for a particular candidate has been tabulated accurately?"
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