Reply #58: "The Paper Ballot Challenge" lay it down, early and often... [View All]

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...make them chicken out, then call them if they even look like they've stolen an election.

I'm sick of all this HAVA crap, verified ballots off of a stupid machine.

I started going to the polling booth when I was four. It had a curtain, a table, a paper ballot, and an ink marker. I watcher my mother vote in every election and I loved it. When I was 12, we argued a bit once on a vote, sotto voce, and I was appropriately chastised and told to behave. To me this was a great honor and privilege. I couldn't wait until it was my turn.

Then I moved back East and ran into f'ing machines, levers, switches...and I always wondered if my vote was really counted.
Now, it's stupid touch screens.

Simple solution -- paper ballots, neuteral counting open to all, reporting over the internet for all to see since the precinct data does not need to be secure. Therefore, the public can do a tabulation itself based on the pristine paper ballot totals. God, I love it!

Kester, thanks!!! UDAMAN