We don't live in a Democracy if we are unable to guarentee our votes are counted.
From Raw Story:
"A growing number of state and local officials are getting cold feet about electronic voting technology, and many are making last-minute efforts to limit or reverse the rollout of new machines in the November elections," reports Ian Urbina.
Now is the time to push this one hard. Let's turn those "cold feet" into action.
Raw Story Continues:
"Paperless touch-screen machines have been the biggest source of consternation, and with about 40 percent of registered voters nationally expected to cast their ballots on these machines in the midterm elections, many local officials fear that the lack of a paper trail will leave no way to verify votes in case of fraud or computer failure," reports the Times.
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Dozens of states have adopted electronic voting technology to comply with federal legislation in 2002 intended to phase out old-fashioned lever and punch-card machines after the "hanging chads" confusion of the 2000 presidential election.
But some election officials and voting experts say they fear that the new technology may have only swapped old problems for newer, more complicated ones. Their concerns became more urgent after widespread problems with the new technology were reported this year in primaries in Ohio, Arkansas, Illinois, Maryland and elsewhere.
It is an outrage that our Voting machines can be opened with a Hotel Minibar key, as recently reported.
If Election Officials are having secon thoughts, we should all do our part to contact our Senators and Represenatives and express our concern over the safety of these machines.
Some Links to help you on your way.
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"It's all over but the counting. And we'll take care of the counting."
- Peter King
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin