Reply #192: Thank you for this wonderful idea! Do you know who to send it to in OH? [View All]

[Wordie]

This is not something that will resolve the e-vote problem, which is a larger issue, but it would really help addressing the problem of people not being able to vote at all.

And what do you think of the question I addressed to Laelth, that if the question regarding the legality of the e-votes could not be properly addressed at the federal level, would it be good to go at it on the state level, where the bad decisions were made in the first place?

ALSO, I'm hoping that all the legally-oriented people on this thread realize that although related, the problem of vapor votes (which I believe is defined as those electronic votes without a papertrail) is really VERY different than the problems addressed in BvG. The votes in BvG were physcal things that could be reviewed. Vapor votes are in a way, not even real votes. Just 1s and 0s in a computer someplace. I'm just concerned that many attorneys just don't realize that the issue is so different than the voting disputes of the past.

Vapor votes certainly, however, don't meet what BvG defined as a "legal" vote (again, this is how I, as a non-legal person, understand it).