Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
The folks in Alaska may have a good idea that needs to be discussed (see the first article below). Essentially they are suggesting a separate, national, hand counted, paper ballot for President. Any registered voter can vote anywhere on that single race. The immediately apparent advantage is that it will enfranchise voters who may be away from home as they can walk into any polling place on election day, prove they are registered and vote the presidential ballot and that ballot would be counted, by hand, right along with every other ballot gathered at the polls. Of course, a glaring argument against is that this would require a national voter registration data base and states are having trouble just getting it right for themselves without joining all 50 plus the territories together into one. It may be an idea worth discussion and thought though. …
NAtional: Editorial – Alaska editorial: Nation needs a single, presidential paper ballot LINK
NAtional: Where’s the Voter Fraud? LINK
NAtional: Panel passes electronic voting guidelines, encourages use by states LINK
NAtional: Panel wants paper trail for touch-screen voting
A committee voted to create a national standard that could eliminate paperless electronic voting machines. LINK
NAtional: Opinion – Think globally, protect the vote locally LINK
NAtional: EAC Approves Voting System Testing & Certification Program Standards LINK
NAtional: EAC Releases Findings of Voting Fraud and Voter Intimidation Study LINK
NAtional: U.S. board approves testing of e-voting machines
EAC votes unanimously to approve a manual for testing and certification of e-voting machines LINK
NAtional: Remember the Pinto or Why Isn’t the Performance of Our Voting Machines as Important as the Performance of Our Blenders LINK
NAtional: Agency Toughen Voting Security Program LINK
CA: Opinion – New elections czar promises to focus attention on better form of e-voting LINK
CA: Riverside County “ Supervisor Bets ‘A Thousand To One’ That His Sequoia Voting Machines Can’t Be Hacked! LINK
CO: Denver – City elections chief quits LINK
CT: Editorial – A TrueVote Vindication LINK
CT: Audit finds new optical scan voting machines accurate, reliable LINK
FL: Tired Of Being Butt Of Election Jokes, Florida Fights Back LINK
FL: FL-13 – Dean calls for new election in District 13 race LINK
FL: Sarasota County – D-13 audit heads to Tallahassee
Experts to verify that Sarasota County’s voting software has been state-certified LINK
FL: Sarasota County – SP TIMES: Jennings to Ask House for ‘Investigation’ in FL-13 Race LINK
IN: Allen County – Criminal campaign charges LINK
KS: Sedgwick County – Landwehr’s opponent contests vote
Democratic challenger Walt Chappell claims an error or fraud occurred in the election; Rep Brenda Landwehr says there’s no validity to the accusations. LINK
OH: Fairfield County – Diebold taking blame for invalid election results LINK
OH: Washington County – State ousts final elections board official LINK
PA: Chester County – Recount will be a test of voting system LINK
NJ: Opinion – Ballots obtained by messengers open door for voting fraud LINK
TX: Waller County – Waller officials vote to abolish elections office LINK
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This is on deck in the House…
“H.R. 6200, “The Paper Ballot Act of 2006”
“In the case of a regularly scheduled general election for the electors of President and Vice President (beginning with the election in November 2008), the following rules shall apply:
`(A) The State shall conduct the election using only paper ballots.
`(B) The State shall ensure that the number of ballots cast at a precinct or equivalent location which are placed inside a single box or similar container does not exceed 500.
`(C) The ballots cast at a precinct or equivalent location shall be counted by hand by election officials at the precinct, and a representative of each political party with a candidate on the ballot, as well as any interested member of the public, may observe the officials as they count the ballots. The previous sentence shall not apply with respect to provisional ballots cast under section 302(a).’.
H.R. 6200, “The Paper Ballot Act of 2006”
Election Defense Alliance
http://www.electiondefenseallia...ot_act_of_2006
All right!
Oops!
Forgot to add that HR 62100 was introduced by Dennis Kucinich and has co-sponsors..
Sam,
The 109th Congress is over I believe. There is no longer an HR-6200. If the bill is refiled for the new congress it will have a new number.
Thanks, John…
I think it will be re-filed
That’s one way to keep the Corporate whores honest, I like it !
I do not want to see any sort of “Federalized” or “nationalized” voting solutions, period. Our elections are under state control and as long as we work on our individual state legislatures and secretaries of state (including voting in honest and nonpartisan pols for these positions) we have a better chance of cleaning up our elections. I’m all for hand counted paper ballots but no “national solutions” for me. Especially any solution that includes further databasing of our voter registration information–this is exactly how the “caging” and disenfranchisement is able to occur in such grand numbers as it is.
With the Democratic Party in the majority come January the door has been kicked open to bring many ideas to the table to workout a final remedy and return honesty, integrity, voter confidence back into the equation of the voting process.
The bleak days of Bob Ney are behind us, that monster and his cohorts who were determined to bend, twist, and contort democracy can’t bring additional damage any more. The criminals in congress and those who connived to our detriment no longer pull the strings that determine our destiny.
We can and will clean up this privatized – electronic computer vote tabulating and vote counting – unauditable sham, fiasco and fraudulent mess.
That brightness at the end of the tunnel is not a run away freight train, it is now day light we see. Rejoice and celebrate, but keep your nose to the grindstone.
More good news perhaps … new legislation possibly in combination with the above references is being discussed by the NY Times, according to Raw Story.
I see a practice in which any registered voter can vote for President in any state or precinct they happen to be in at the time would “enfranchise” people who can afford to travel from polling place to polling place, state to state, to vote as many times as they want and then it would be up to the authorities to figure out who did that and proved they did, and if they did how do they subtract the unlawful votes out of the total since we don’t track the votes to the voter. I could see the wealthier party sending out their people to vote early and often to run up their candidate’s totals. Am I missing some built in safeguard to prevent this? Real-time look up that a voter has voted in another state? Don’t think that’s feasible given our current inability to accurately count the votes that have been cast in the voters own precinct.