Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
ABC News reports this quote: “This is the wave of the future, that states are looking to scrap their electronic touch screens and move to some other system that has a paper trail,” said Michael McDonald of the Brookings Institute. “It’s not always good to get ahead of ourselves,” he said. “The best way of doing elections is just the old-fashioned way, by paper.” To which I say: “This wave is the result of the unprecedented work of thousands of Election Integrity activists around the country. Aided by the Internet and new means of communication the Election Integrity community has grown and its voice is being heard. The fight is not over but we have them on the run.” // U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) announced that the U.S. Senate Rules and Administration Committee has scheduled a hearing on Wednesday, February 7 on “The Hazards of Electronic Voting ““ Focus on the Machinery of Democracy.” The hearing will focus on concerns related to the security and auditability of voting systems used in federal elections, with an emphasis on reported problems in the 2006 federal elections….
Hearing Chaired by Senator Feinstein is first step in the Committee’s efforts to address the hazards of electronic voting LINK
Lawmakers are correct to push for voting changes, but they need to move carefully. LINK
Brunner plans review to improve voting LINK
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I agree. Paper and pencil. And just as important, citizens’ oversight on the whole operation. None of this “secret” stuff.
How can we get machine-free hand-counted paper ballot systems on the table?
And hindered by the American news media which chose to parrot the information being feed to them by the voting machine corporations and the politicians who helped those corporations.
I wrote a letter to Bill Nelson ‘suggesting’ that he move left, not right one time about a year ago, I told him ‘we were watching’ 😉 …we’ll see
Can someone like Finley or Stewart expose that hack Brit Williams, for the Diebold ass-kissing P(iece)O(f)S shill that he is ?
Professor Emeritus my ass
…Oh yeah, I told Nelson that there are ‘millions of us that don’t listen to the propaganda put out by the Main Stream military contractor media (or faux), and actually pay attention to the reality on the ground as to what’s happening up there in foggy bottom through C-Span and any other independant media we can get our eyes on.’
and a lot more
Maybe thats why I get so many “drive bys” (probably have the subversive label nailed to me…see you in Gitmo) 😛
I remember now what set me off to write him, it was when he voted ‘aye’ to confirm ‘Contra Death Squad Negroponte’
(man, was I pissed-off about that)
John: Quite a heartwarming editorial today in the NYT.
February 5, 2007
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