How to avoid using the machines [View All]

[gracie76]

How about if every single one of us requested an Absentee Ballot, and then mailed it in, or even better, brought it in to a polling place.(In California you can turn your Absentee Ballot in to any open polling place in your county.) Right there you have a "hard copy" of your vote. You could even make a photocopy before you turned it in. The machines could just sit there, unused, unloved and irrelevant. Would this work? I just went in and requested an Absentee Ballot in order to NOT use any electronic device to record my vote. I do not trust any of the electronic equipment, but I do understand its promise of "quick and dirty" (possibly), counting of the ballots. You can get around that by voting absentee. Of course, I also recognize that this leaves the possibility that every absentee ballot is going to be processed through some sort of counting equipment.....but there WILL be a paper trail/ ballot that can be recounted ...and if you bring your absentee ballot in to the actual polling place and STATE OUT LOUD that you are voting this way because you do not trust electronic voting, they may just get the message. AND, LAST BUT NOT LEAST, ALL BALLOTS SHOULD BE HAND COUNTED AT THE POLLING PLACE BEFORE THEY ARE TURNED IN TO ANY CENTRAL COUNTING FACILITY. This will take time, but it acts as a double check. A voter revolt against the machine -- sounds like fun. (Maybe this should be a poll, but I'm new at this and am not sure how that works...)