Blogged by Brad from the road…
“What we need, is we need paper ballots, so votes can be verified,” says John Edwards directly in response to Why Tuesday’s video Candidate Challenge. He says a bunch of other good stuff on the topic as well in his brief response…
Edwards is the only Democratic candidate so far (12 candidates from both parties have so far answered the challenge issued by Why Tuesday’s Jacob Soboroff) to speak that directly to the issue of paper ballots, and other needed reforms.
On the R side, believe it or not, only Duncan Hunter understands the need for paper ballots. But then again, he also sees imaginary “people that are illegally in the country being rounded up, herded into the polls, we’ve seen that in California, voting illegally.” So we’d have to call his position on election reform a wash.
Also, watch for our buddy Jake’s questions on Election Reform to be asked of all of the candidates at tonight’s Democratic debate, where his video question was voted into the Top 10 questions (atleast at last count before they shut down voting!) after being voted into the top 10 at 10Questions.com, a project of TechPresident in cooperation with the NYTimes Editorial Board and MSNBC. They will pose all the top 10 questions to the candidates over the next month and ask for a video response, similar to the Why Tuesday? Candidate Challenge. Waytago, Jake!
Why Tuesday? will be at the CNN/YouTube Republican debate in Florida on Nov 28th and The BRAD BLOG looks forward to further partnership with them (Why Tuesday?, not necessarily Republicans, CNN or YouTube) 🙂
In every state We need voters to vote by mail with paper ballots counted by civil servants and have civil servants register voters and keep track of the voter rolls.
No party should keep track of the voter registrations nor count the votes. Parties can observe such activities though.
I have started a new political party called the Liberal Democratic Party of the United States. You can read the web page at http://www.dmocrats.org and you will find that this party works differently from other political parties. Take a look and help enact progressive legislation and end the war where you work as a legislator and you vote on legislation.
Vote by mail is an open invitation to fraud.
The moment you lose sight of your vote BEFORE it is counted and reported, you may as well kiss your vote good-bye.
Democracy is NOT faith-based nor trust-based.
Allowing it to be is what has gotten us the current usurpers infiltrating our White House, our Congress, and our Judicial System.
VERIFICATION, TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY.
That is what can protect our votes and our nation.
Demand them all. Demand PAPER BALLOTS, HAND-COUNTED IN PUBLIC AT THE POLLS!
Nothing else will do!
Just wanted to echo “PatGInSD’s” comments in reply to “Liberal Democrat”. Thank you, Pat!
Yes, excellent PatGInSD!!!