Protect the Upcoming Elections - Paper Ballots

if i were you, i'd stay home and protest that way! this system doesn't deserve your votes!

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I love this!

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Actually, some states, like California, require a receipt to be generated so that votes can be audited and counted in case the election is contested.

Visit Blackbox.org for more information about this issue.

It is amazing how Democrats seem to be the only ones concerned about this, when clearly it should be a problem for all parties.

My sister has worked on this issue for years, and if anyone wants more information, I would be happy to send you some.

I wonder how vastly different our election process would be had Gore lost the popular vote but won the election?

"It is amazing how Democrats seem to be the only ones concerned about this, when clearly it should be a problem for all parties."

In the last election, Hillary Clinton screeched that she was going to do something about it and then conveniently forgot all about it. Typical Democrat response: all screech, no action.

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What a cruel, heartless, nasty threadjack.

Back on topic...

Looks like Senators Graham, Clinton and Boxer actually introduced bills on e-voting - I wonder what the Republican Senate did with these bills?

Every vote should count, and only be counted once, regardless of your political affiliation.

E-Voting

Updated On: 9/27/06 at 01:29 PM

In Maryland, where they had so many machine issues, recently, it is the Republican Governor that is calling for the paper ballots. I don't understand why in the 21st Century, we can't have machines that tally the vote?

Updated On: 9/27/06 at 02:15 PM

The issue is that many of the machine's software code is hackable, and fundamentally, regardless of party, when you have a partisan secretary of state controlling state elections, and non-uniform voting standards for federal elections, you are asking for trouble.

I don't quite understand why federal standards are not established for all elections requiring things like paper-verified voting, and non-partisan election officials so that some of the issues inherently built into the system can be addressed.

There are state's rights issues, but I would think that this is an overwhelming federal issue that should require federal elections to meet certain uniform standards.

And, good for Maryland.

What is being sought is a verifiable paper trail in the event the results of any election are challenged. Without the paper trail, there is no way to audit the election results, and if someone contests the election, you have nothing but the computer, which is subject to manipulation, to go back to in order to recount the votes.

Many sates have laws on the books that require states to have a verifiable process to audit votes and elections in the event the outcome is challenged.

With electronic voting and no paper trail, this cannot be done.

There were huge abnormalities in some counties using the e-voting machines, where the number of votes cast and recorded in the machines exceeded the number of actual registered votes in that jurisdiction, or where in heavily democratic or republican districts, the vast number of votes went to the minority party.

There are issues with the ability to hack into the software and manipulate it after a vote is cast, which leads the entire system suspect.

All that most of us are asking for is a receipt of some sort to go back to and count in the event an election is challenged. It would not be a paper ballot, but more of a receipt that is generated as part of the process that accurately reflects your vote before you leave the voting booth.

I wonder which party had the trouble with the paper ballots in the first place?

before the election my college, SUNY New Paltz, did a demonstration on how easy it is to hack into a voting machine

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