Roy Lipscomb: Give us "old fashioned" paper ballots.

[kpete]

My response to Trib Editorial "Hacking the vote"
by Roy Lipscomb, Illinois Ballot Integrity Project
http://www.opednews.com

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My "letter to the editor"

Thanks much for your editorial about the Brennan
report, the latest in a string of exposes on the
unreliability of electronic voting machines.
("Hacking the Vote," July 11, 2006, Section 1,
page 14:http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0607110260jul11,0,7284618.story?coll=chi-newsopinion-hed)

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We seem to have lost sight of the goal.

Job one for election officials isn't to speed up
the tallying, or to deploy high-tech window
dressing, or to ease the workload of election
officials.

Job one for election officials is to make sure
elections are honest.

Delegated that job, voting machines just lean on
their shovels.

Give us "old fashioned" paper ballots.

--Roy Lipscomb

much more at:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_roy_lips_060720_my_response_to_trib_.htm

[JHH]

1. That is what Canada uses

[BeFree]

2. More......

Yes, the City and County do offer a bandage for
voting-machines ailments: a paper record of each
voter's choices, one that the voter has a chance
to verify first-hand.

Those paper records are designed to reveal the
correct tally when a machine is suspected of
giving an incorrect one.

But wait a minute. Doesn't that imply that the
voter-verified paper record is more reliable than
the machine?

If so, why did we waste more than $50 million on
systems that are less reliable than paper?

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Thanks, kpete, that's a hoot!

[Peace Patriot]

3. But we can't get it done by November! So, what do we do?

I say: Massive citizen BOYCOTT OF THE MACHINES! Vote Absentee! REFUSE TO USE THE MACHINES!

AB voting is not safe, but it IS a PROTEST against the rigged machines. It's like the Montgomery bus boycott, which didn't solve segregation all by itself, but pointed the way. Rosa Parks refused to go the back of the bus. She refused to participate in that corrupt, racist system. But in this case, we MUST vote. (Turnout is our only chance to beat the machine advantage to Bushites this November.) We can't boycott voting. But we CAN boycott the rigged machines. Corrupt election officials just scan the AB votes right into the electronic system, it's true. BUT we DON'T HAVE TO PARTICIPATE in that. That's them. This is us. We won't use the goddamned things. And if nobody will vote on them, what good are they?

And, if enough people do it, all their shiny, new, extremely expensive election theft machinery will be gathering dust--obsolete before it's time. THEN we have American Revolution II: Election reform!

More: It's easy! Everybody can do it! EVERYBODY--all that 70% of discontented Americans--can EASILY participate in this protest against rigged elections.

I think it's a winner.

And I don't see any other ideas floating around for a massive, high participation protest, for when the Bushites steal Election no. 3. Imagine the American people sending a mountain of paper Absentee Ballots to every Registrar in the country, to count! Ha! HA! Big monkey wrench!

Bumper sticker: "Bust the Machines--Vote Absentee!"

[bleever]

4. Remember when the food in the future would be little pills?

We all still chew the real stuff.

What's wrong with paper ballots? They take a long time to count, but what's the damn hurry? People don't assume the office for a month or more after the election. Why not take the time to be sure the winner is actually the person seated?

[Kurovski]

5. K&R

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