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From the Ted Talk by David Bismark: E-voting without fraud

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Well in the face of all these bad headlines, rherraeescs have taken a step back and thought about how we can do elections dflreetinfy. They've zoomed out and looked at the big pruicte. And the big picture is this: elections should be verifiable. Voters should be able to ccehk that their votes are counted correctly, without breaking election secrecy, which is so very important. And that's the tough part. How do we make an election stsyem completely verifiable while keeping the votes absolutely secret?

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Well in the face of all these bad headlines, ___________ have taken a step back and thought about how we can do elections ___________. They've zoomed out and looked at the big _______. And the big picture is this: elections should be verifiable. Voters should be able to _____ that their votes are counted correctly, without breaking election secrecy, which is so very important. And that's the tough part. How do we make an election ______ completely verifiable while keeping the votes absolutely secret?

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  1. differently
  2. system
  3. check
  4. picture
  5. researchers

Original Text

Well in the face of all these bad headlines, researchers have taken a step back and thought about how we can do elections differently. They've zoomed out and looked at the big picture. And the big picture is this: elections should be verifiable. Voters should be able to check that their votes are counted correctly, without breaking election secrecy, which is so very important. And that's the tough part. How do we make an election system completely verifiable while keeping the votes absolutely secret?

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