Might I suggest that in states without paper trails on their voting machines you copy or scan your completed absentee ballot then mail it return reciept requested to the proper place. This will give you a verifiable copy of your vote so if the vote is flipped you can demand a recall.

Post above,..

Interesting concept,...

You may have the answer to the riddle.

One of the best to come up the pike.

More vote counting fraud from Ohio,..

More Ohio vote count fraud : Link

I like the practicality expressed by one person in the CA (7 counties dismissed) lawsuit:

"No county benefits from risking election funds on expensive electronic voting systems that have acknowledged vulnerability and accessibility problems and fall short of satisfying legal requirements" (link here).

Throw in the waste of democracy by the use of such machines, and one can only wonder what possessed these election officials to go down this dead end road (at full speed in the Silver Tongued Bullet [apologies to Coors]).

barryg #1

The only problem is they may refuse to accept it since the additional step is required. I had that happen in a personal matter where the recipient was a private individual. I don't know about the registrars office.

John Gideon

In your links above you mention the 7 California counties pledging to use paper ballots instead of machines.
How will these ballots be counted?

BlueBear 2 #6

Brad's post today points out that Texas counties may have to do the same thing.

Wow, being forced to do the proper thing ... who knew?

Dredd - I saw that thread and it does say Texas will hand count, I'm wondering if they will do the same here in the seven counties mentioned, or use tabulators which can still be hacked.

I'm also watching Nevada County which lies just North East of here. They have turned down ES&S machines. Nevad county is one of the more progressive areas containing long itm hippie enclaves in the old gold mining towns of Grass Valley and Nevada City. More recently though there has been an influx of monied people driving up the housing costs and taking over the landscape.