Reply #26: You know, limiting hand counts to only federal elections still [View All]

[merh]

falls short. Guess if you would bother to go the office of your election offical and ask them their opinion and if you would bother helping with the next election, from start to finish, you might better understand the process and recognize that insisting on hand counted paper ballots alone will not work unless the legislations provides for a lot more than just hand counts.

Your call of the wild falls on deaf ears unless you propose legislation that will provide for adequate funding, a system to require service (similiar to jury service) and one day set aside for only national elections. That day should be a legal holiday or a Sunday so that folks don't have to worry about missing work to vote. The funding would have to be more than just the HAVA bullshit funding, it would be guaranteed amount of federal funds based on the census figures of the community.

There is so much more that would be required before you could get the backing from the folks that you need (those that actually conduct elections) but that is a start.

As I have suggested before, go learn the process, go understand the needs and then, maybe then, you can be a voice of reason in the election reform efforts.

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