Reply #172: HAVA was in response to Florida [View All]

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HAVA was an inproper reaction to Florida's lack of statutes on
what constitutes a vote on punch cards.

In Florida, it doesn't matter what you do to the elections, as long as
you have a partisan SOS using every method possible to thwart the will
of the people. When a state is that corrupt, ballots won't get counted correctly.
No matter how they are counted.

In Ohio, same thing, partisan SOS who is head of Bush's Ohio Campaign.

All the laws in the world don't work when you have powerful people
in position to manipulate and control every aspect of the election,
from registration to voting equipment or ballots.

What Ohio, Florida and Arizona need are Boards of Elections, with dual party or
more serving.
Persons in charge of Election Administration should not be allowed to
chair political campaigns.

In my state, we have a 5 member State Board of Elections. 3 are of the majority party,
and 2 are of the smaller party. It would be great if a third party were on there to
really keep them on their toes.

We had punch cards, but the undervote on them was lower than on DRES.
We didn't have widespread voter supression, but did see some very small pockets
in a few counties. Nothing at all like what occurred in OH or FL.
We had one county holding back voting machines, but it seems to have been
due to incompetence.

If Ohio and Florida had hand counted paper ballots, the results would still be rigged.
Because their SOS had the power to do it.

So, laugh all you want, but HAVA was a stupid reaction to Florida's issues, and was completely
off base.