Georgia Will Move Back to Paper Ballots

[applegrove]

Georgia Will Move Back to Paper Ballots

July 29, 2019 at 11:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 38 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/07/29/georgia-will-move-back-to-paper-ballots/

"SNIP.....

“Georgia officials awarded a lucrative contract Monday to install a new statewide voting system to Dominion Voting, an Denver-based company that will give voters a new way to cast their ballots by combining touchscreens and paper ballots,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

......SNIP"

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. As I read through the twitter feed this morn' more to come about Dominion

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212329065

[Hoyt]

2. Folks are already criticizing it.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212329065

[democratisphere]

3. Smart choice.

All other states should do the same. To hell with computerized voting devices. Some things are best done the old fashioned way.

[applegrove]

5. Wehave paper ballots in canada. It gets counted within the hour after the polls close.

That being said we don't vote for state and congresspeople or judges as we have separate elections for provinces or cities and a parliamentary system where your vote for your member of parliament results in the winning prime minister if you vote with the majority for a winning party. But they could do paper ballots for the President and congress people. And do computer for all the rest.

[democratisphere]

6. That's because Canada is smarter than their neighbors to the south.

America dosen't understand simple solutions solve catastrophic problems. Paper ballots forever!

[applegrove]

7. If they would just allow online voting. Unfortunately the GOP is going to do

anything except make it easy to vote.

[democratisphere]

9. No voting should be done online.

Voting and internet should always be separate entities.

[applegrove]

10. No? Not safe?

[democratisphere]

11. Anything connected to the internet can be hacked or f'ed with.

Paper ballots fed into a paper ballot counting scanner would be my recommendation. Cheap, simple, reliable backed up by a paper ballot.

[applegrove]

13. Oh that is what we do in canada i think. We get our ballot folded into a paper then i think it is

scanned in while you watch. The official never sees your ballot.

[democratisphere]

14. Canada gets it.

America don't.

[colsohlibgal]

8. This Should Happen Here

No reason not to other than it virtually eliminates the chance for hanky panky, for flat out cheating. Moscow Mitch wants to cheat if necessary, Republicans in general know they are in the minority.

[lostnfound]

15. These are bar code ballots. The vote that counts is a bar code. Voters can't read bar codes.

It’s a scam.

[CentralMass]

4. Moscow Mitch McConnell recieved money from lobbyists from Dominion Voting .

https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-robert-mueller-election-security-russia-1451361
"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell squashed two bills intended to ensure voting security on Thursday, just one day after former special counsel Robert Mueller warned that Russians were attempting to sabotage the 2020 presidential elections "as we sit here."

McConnell said he wouldn't allow a vote on the bills because they were "so partisan," but, as previously reported, earlier this year McConnell received a slew of donations from four of the top voting machine lobbyists in the country."
"Clearly this request is not a serious effort to make a law. Clearly something so partisan that it only received one single solitary Republican vote in the House is not going to travel through the Senate by unanimous consent," said McConnell on the Senate floor."

"The plans would likely burden the two largest electronic voting machine vendors in the United States, Election Systems & Software and Dominion Voting Systems, with new regulations and financial burdens. Together, the companies make up about 80 percent of all voting machines used in the country and both have far-reaching lobbying arms in Washington D.C. Many of those lobbyists have contributed to the McConnell campaign, reported Sludge last month, an investigative outlet that focuses on money in politics."

I hope that there are abundent Democratic voting officials and volunteers that will keep eyes on those ballot boxes. There has been election fraud long since before the electronic voting machine.

[ecstatic]

12. Seems too good to be true, especially with Kemp in control.

I've had a funny feeling about our voting system since the e-voting began. I really hope this is a legitimate change for the better.