Reply #12: Instead of protesting by not voting, which will help the republicans [View All]

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steal the election by an even greater margin, get active.

Go down to your state's elections division and protest: demand a voter-verified paper ballot on all electronic voting equipment and demand that it be counted on election night. volunteer to help count them.

If they say they can't provide it, then demand a paper ballot be provided on election day for everyone who doesn't want to use the electronic vote stealing machines. There are counties across the country, including in California, who are providing that paper ballot as an alternative. Make sure the ballot is considered the ballot of record and make sure that if it's counted by opti-scan (which uses the same vote counting code as the electronic voting machines) demand a hand counted audit of some of the precincts as a check against the opti-scan's count.

Join a group in your state or a national group and fight all-electronic voting. There are groups all across the nation that are pathetically under-manned. Most are run by people with full-time jobs who could use any amount of help from anyone willing to do something to stop this election fraud.

Become a poll watcher and take careful notes of what happens on election day, whether vendors have their techs running the elections, tampering with the machines, etc. Gather evidence.

Get together a group of people to help develop and implement polling at precincts. Find experts to help put this together right, so your parallel counts will be done scientifically. Or demand that your state have a machine in each county, selected at random on election day, that is used for parallel voting = tested in view of the public using the actual code that's counting the votes that day, but by a script so the count can be audited. This is not the same as the "Logic and Accuracy" testing, which is worthless in protecting us from election fraud.

Finally, vote. If you're using an absentee ballot, you'd better have a talk with your election officials to see how it will be handled. Some states don't count them unless a race is close. some states (like Georgia ) have such terrible bookkeeping systems that no one can audit the counts on absentee and provisional ballots. Tell election officials ahead of time that you want to see a clear and transparent record of all absentee and provisional votes, that includes precinct counts of those votes that are recorded on paper that can be used as a way to audit the counts.

If you don't vote, you help the criminals stealing the elections. I as much as any American know the terrible pain of having to live with electronic paperless vote stealing machines as I live in Georgia and have been forced to vote on them since 2002. My hate for this knows no bounds. But as grievious and monstrous as it is to be forced to vote on what all evidence points to as a fraudulent voting system, I still go to the polls and vote. It rips me apart, but I do it anyway.