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On the recordSeptember 27, 2007
If there's money missing from my account, I can track and see where did it go. But I can have that confidence of doing that through the banks, through the credit cards without a lot of problem. But we never know. We never know how a person actually votes. That secrecy of the way you vote cannot be tracked. Once you walk out of that voting booth, there's no connection between the voter and the actual ballot that was cast. So that requires a different level of integrity.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

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Discussing the differences between tracking financial transactions and the secrecy of voting.

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