Vote on Paper Ballots

Computer generated animations are great! Computer generated, unverifiable voting, not so much. Vote on paper. Here's why...

More details: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8163

P.S. I've been asked how voters can make the decision to vote on paper ballots this late in the game. Many states and counties which offer touch-screen systems on Election Day also allow the voter to request a paper ballot at the polls. Others offer voters a choice when voting between "paper or plastic" (touch-screen or paper ballot). For example, in CA, every voter has the right to vote on a paper ballot, even as some jurisdictions tend to simply point voters towards the touch-screens. Check with your state and/or county before voting to find out your rights and if you're allowed to vote on paper on Election Day! The unverifiable vote you cast may otherwise be your own!

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• Paper ballots
• touch-screen voting
• DRE
• Diebold
• Brad Friedman
• BRAD BLOG
• verifiable voting
• election
• voting machine
• e-voting

[Nincumpoopie]

god what fucking horse shit...

[TheBRADBLOG]

@Nincumpoopie "god what fucking horse shit..." Really? Why do you say that?

[TheBRADBLOG]

I accidentally deleted punxsutawneybarney's comment. It was:

It's just plain science v. 100% faith-based voting. And now that ES&S has bought Diebold 80% of the voting machine market is controlled by one company!

[TheBRADBLOG]

And then I tried to reply to barney (before I accidentally deleted him!) with:

Good news and bad news, Barney. Good news: The DoJ forced ES&S to sell the Diebold election division due to the anti-trust issues you mention. The bad news is that a Canadian firm bought both them and Sequoi in one fell swoop. Search "Dominion Sequoia" at BRAD BLOG dot com and you can read all about it.

[favoom1]

What a mess! Feeney - voted one of the 20 most corrupt Congressmen, go Tom- was the sleaze from Florida. Clint Curtis was the programmer. He didn't make the claims in "court" he made them to the House Judiciary Commission. He said he wrote a prototype not that it was actually used. No one's seen it let alone confirm that it might work or get past hashing or how it could run on BOTH precinct and central counters. There's a $200,000 yippee prize he hasn't applied for. Total bullshit.

[wyrwich]

@favoom1 Yet there is no court hearings of people testifying to the rigging of election results like there is in computer voting machines. Search for Computer Programmer " Tom Feeney " and see for yourself. He testifies that he helped rig an American election.

[favoom1]

The easiest ballot to "hack" is the paper ballot. Counting paper ballots - the Bradblog horseshit about it aside - is WILDLY labor intensive, easily shown inaccurate and slow. With the armies of counters required, physical security and monitoring - which is what all voting systems ACTUALLY require - is nearly impossible. See your candidate on the ballot? Make a votemark. If the other guy was already voted, it's an overvote. If not, then it's a vote. Counters hide pencil leads. Yawn.

[favoom1]

The easiest ballot to "hack" is the paper ballot. Counting paper ballots - the Bradblog horseshit about it aside - is WILDLY labor intensive, easily shown inaccurate and slow. With the armies of counters required, physical security and monitoring - which is what all voting systems ACTUALLY require - is nearly impossible. See your candidate on the ballot? Make a votemark. If the other guy was already voted, it's an overvote. If not, then it's a vote. Counters hide pencil leads. Yawn.

[MyBrotherMan]

Conspiracy = A cooperating with B to take advantage of C. Anyone who believes people do anything like this to each other is obviously a nut ¬¬

[punxsutawneybarney]

@TheBRADBLOG Thanks, Brad, for keeping me up to date. Unfortunately Debra Bowen's vigilance on the voting machine issue in California has made citizens of her state complacent and taken much of the wind out of the sails of the electoral integrity movement.

[0ranutan]

Like it. Good effort!!