Election Reform? Not Coming From Congress, No Way. [View All]

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The present election laws clearly call for voting systems with an *audit capacity*. See:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00015481----000-.html

(2) Audit capacity
(A) In general
The voting system shall produce a record with an audit capacity for such system.
(B) Manual audit capacity
(i) The voting system shall produce a permanent paper record with a manual audit capacity for such system.
(ii) The voting system shall provide the voter with an opportunity to change the ballot or correct any error before the permanent paper record is produced.
(iii) The paper record produced under subparagraph (A) shall be available as an official record for any recount conducted with respect to any election in which the system is used.

Who thinks that a paper record with merely totals printed out can be audited?

To make this clear, allow me to discern the two types of DRE paper systems now being used:

The DREs without a Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) produce only the total counts as interpreted by the machine. Totals only.

The DREs with a VVPAT records each vote that takes place and clearly is intended as an audit trail, heck it even includes the word *audit* in its name!.

Any system that does not have a VVPAT does not produce a paper record that can be audited. Those systems are in violation of the law.

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So, we have a law that clearly calls for voting systems to have an *audit capacity*.

But, the totals only paper record that comes from DREs without VVPAT are not auditable. That should be clear to everyone. The system used in the Fla. Cong. District 13, Jennings race, was not a system that the law calls for since it did not have an *audit capacity*. So, the law was violated.

But the law that was violated by the Fla. voting system that has no audit capacity, was the same law that appropriated the funds to purchase and place the voting system in Sarasota where the Jennings race was voted on. Are you beginning to see the problem?

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Our problem is this:

Congress knows that the law has been violated time and time again, but they are all such weenies that they can't bring themselves to admit that the law congress passed has been violated, and many of those same lawmakers have been elected by voting systems that violated the law.

Too, the fact is that nearly $4 billion dollars were spent to purchase the voting systems that violated the same law! They'd all look like fools to admit congress screwed up royally!

That's why every new election bill in congress goes around the fact of the matter and tries to correct these serious violations without actually saying that the law was violated or confronting the violations.

What a damn bunch of weenie butt-wipes we have in congress. Oh well, it has ever been thus, eh?

Now is not the time for any of us to let them off the hook for their mistakes. If we continue to go easy on them they will pass even more election laws that will be violated, and we will end up with another bushco member in the White House. Its time we take a stand.