Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
According to “Roll Call”, “After rewriting rules for lobbyists, increasing the federal minimum wage and moving on other election-year promises, senior Democratic Members in both chambers said Friday that within weeks they will begin scrutinizing electronic voting equipment and, for now, shelve other election-related proposals such as overhauls of 527s and electronic financial disclosure in the Senate. “The first thing is going to be elections,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, told a group of reporters Friday. “We’re going into 2008 with [an electronic voting system] that is problematic.” …
Proponents say fusion voting allows votes for primary candidates from third-party voters LINK
People would need photo ID before registering, voting LINK
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Dare we hope?
Dammit, they’re still talking paper trails, not paper ballots!
ARRRRRRRGH!!!
Hey, can one of you Democrats reassure America on Bradblog that you’re going to talk about paper *ballots* and not paper “trails”??
Thank you Warren!
To the Donnetta Davidson chairman of the EAC,
GO BACK TO YOUR CRUMBLING WHITE HOUSE THAT BELIEVES IN APPEARANCES MORE THAN THE LAW ITSELF!
From an independent who’s forced to vote democrat because there is no fusion voting in PA.(Thank you T. Evans)
GO SENATOR FEINSTEIN, JUST REMEMBER IT’S PAPER BALLOTS NOT TRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats what I’m talkin’ about! Paper ballots … one for each American vote in federal elections. Then let the states follow the lead of SoS Bowen in California.
Paper ballots are the enemy of the king, the liar in chief, and the clowns at the EAC.
I’m a little undercaffeinated this morning, so forgive me if I ask a question with an answer I SHOULD know – but do we have ANY Congress members that know the reason they should be pushing for paper ballots instead of paper trails? Is there anyone who will stand and argue that point forcefully?
I’ve tried over and over to get through to my Congress Critters on the issue but every response I get is another reassurance that they’re backing voter ID laws and paper trails.
I’m not sure of the protocol – what would it take to get one of our own (John? Brad? Anyone?) testifying in front of Congress?
KBE, I mentioned a while back that Kucinich was pushing paper only ballots for the ’08 presidential only, I don’t know what happened to it since I believe it was introduced in the last congress
BTW, good to see you punching the old keys again 🙂
Link, scroll down
I don’t know, (con)fusion doesn’t work for me, theres always a Dem in the primary for me to vote for anyway (like Dennis)
Being an Indy gives you no choice in the primary
What does being an Indy mean except I might vote for a Republican when not voting Dem ? (pfft) I thought about going Indy but it made no sense to me
IMO we should be using that energy towards instant runoff voting for elections (Thom Hartmann helped me to see that point) and proportional representation in congress, but there is no way in hell that the two parties are going to let that happen…yet
I aggree, Floridiot, IRV is THE way to go!
(GrannyB in Jebby’s Bananaland)
(Oh good, it’s not happening here!)
Big Brother is very busy this morning! Over at Americablog and also Crooks and Liars, there is a page of gobbledy-gook that comes up every time people post (thru Haloscan)..the most alarming part being that the message is FORWARDED before the post registers!
Pretty creepy, huh, especially since it’s happening on a piece about the increased surveillance of war protesters!
Jebby’s Bananaland he-he,
Granny, they’ve been monitoring me for a while now…you get used to it. 😉
My companion (wife) thinks they’re going to drive up some day and haul me away (because of all the drivebys shes witnessed)
I just tell her, I’m not breaking the law, they are
Granny musta read this one to get her hackles up so early in the mornin’ 🙂
Link from C&L
Floridiot
Thanks for the input about IRV. I dont’t know much about it, but soon will. As for being indy not making much sense, I remember a political science professor telling my class the same thing right before Clinton’s second election I think it was. Well, as far as I remember, the analyists attributed his win to the indy vote. I switched to dem for the Dean primmary so I could vote for him in PA.
It’s my common or maybe human sense that tells me not all repubs are bad just like not all dems are good. And I really can’t stand the deviciveness that blanket statements cause. Hell I’m just trying to vote for the best person for the job. But I do think the indy vote has put pressure on both parties to come up with less extremest candidates, that is, until our unelected president anyway.
Ancient, sorry didn’t mean it as a blanket statement, all I meant was it doesn’t make sense for ME… for you it may be fine but I’ve never voted Republican in my life of voting (yet), and the way it looks so far I never will, unless we get IRV, I might even vote for Ron Paul then
No sweat Floridiot, actually I’ve only voted for one myself.
Here is our interesting experience with electronic voting in Cook County in Chicago
http://diamondinfoanalytics.com...ess-forensics/
Smart people have rigged elections forever. There is no such thing as a secure computer system.
Diamondanalytics
A couple of questions for you, are you at liberty and willing to share the “rich data” with some nonpartisan
voting groups like Voters Unite, and Vote Trust…?
Diamond, man, you got a real belly full of problems up dere in Chi-town, and what about all these wireless transmissions ?, is that even kosher ?, how about secure?