Jimmy Carter tackles election reform (again)

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Friday March 25, 2005 · 4:31 AM PST

2005/03/25 · 04:31

Let's hope he does a better job this time around.

Carter to Head Elections Panel
Bipartisan Group Will Look for Ways to Improve Voting in U.S.

Reuters
Friday, March 25, 2005; Page A11

Former president Jimmy Carter will lead a bipartisan commission to examine problems with the U.S. election system, American University's Center for Democracy and Election Management said yesterday.

Carter, a Democrat whose Carter Center has monitored more than 50 elections around the world, will co-chair the private commission with Republican James A. Baker III, who served as secretary of state under President George H.W. Bush.

Jimmy Carter said the commission will consider "issues of inclusion" and propose improvements.

Former Senate minority leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.), a Democrat who lost his seat in the 2004 election, will also participate.

"I am concerned about the state of our electoral system and believe we need to improve it," Carter said in a statement. He said the group will assess "issues of inclusion" in federal voting and propose recommendations to improve the process.

"We will try to define an electoral system for the 21st century that will make Americans proud again," he said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64340-2005Mar24.html

So Carter and Daschle and James Evil Baker are out to repair our election system. Why do I not feel too optimistic? Probably because it was Carter who recommended the Help America Vote Act (orwellian) which led to the rapid spread of paperless electronic voting machines after the 2000 election theft leading to mysterious GOP victories in 02 and 04. Also, this reuters article makes no mention of the biggest problem with our election system, the lack of a paper trail. Paper Trail Jimmy! Please don't fail us.

At least someone will be leading a conversation about these issues. Hopefully they can keep Arnold's new partisan sec of state from bringing back the Diebold machines in Cali and we can keep those 55 votes in the dem column. This is the #1 issue people. Without fair elections all other issues are moot. Hopefully Dascle won't roll over to anything Baker proposes in an effort to just get along. He should have learned a lesson about the depths to which today's gop will plunge to hold onto power.

All the hard work and dollars in blueville can't win a rigged election, and an election rigged via computers that lack a paper trail is damn near impossible to expose. Remember the exit polls showing Kerry winning? Do you want to live under President Jeb Bush? Make a little noise. Support the cause.
http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

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