"John Edwards: 'We Need Paper Ballots'" (X)

[kster]

November 15th, 2007
Blogged by Brad from the road...

First Democratic Candidate to Answer Directly on the Issue, in Response to Why Tuesday?'s Candidate Challenge...
Blogged by Brad from the road...

"What we need, is we need paper ballots, so votes can be verified," says John Edwards directly in response to Why Tuesday's video Candidate Challenge. He says a bunch of other good stuff on the topic as well in his brief response...

Edwards is the only Democratic candidate so far (12 candidates from both parties have so far answered the challenge issued by Why Tuesday's Jacob Soboroff) to speak that directly to the issue of paper ballots, and other needed reforms.

On the R side, believe it or not, only Duncan Hunter understands the need for paper ballots. But then again, he also sees imaginary "people that are illegally in the country being rounded up, herded into the polls, we've seen that in California, voting illegally." So we'd have to call his position on election reform a wash.

video at link...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5307

I thought this would be a good day to run this article/video.


(X) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3286893

[curious one]

1. Agreed. we need to track the votes.

Computerized voting is not valid.

[Lugnut]

2. Thank you Sen Edwards.

K&R

[HCE SuiGeneris]

3. Yes. We do! Until we make that happen, we are at the mercy of

the criminals that manipulate the voting machines.

[LWolf]

4. A former presidential candidate introduced HR 6200,

the Paper Ballot Act of 2006.

http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/h_r_6200_the_paper_ballot_act_of_2006

Edwards is right, of course, about the need for paper ballots. So is Kucinich.

It's too bad more Democrats didn't address this issue a long time ago. It may come back to bite them again in 2008.