Reply #27: That's what some of us are calling for in Georgia [View All]

[Cookie wookie]

where a law was recently passed that allows voters to vote by mail-in absentee ballot without having to have any excuse (like being away from the polls on election day, etc.)

That's what I'll be doing and encouraging everyone I know to do the same.

We have tried for the last 3 legislative sessions to get voter verified paper ballot legislation approved, and got our "ideal" legislation sponsored and introduced this year (SB591) The Vote Count Protection Act which called for hand counted vvpb in the precincts on election night, the vvpb being the ballot of record.

We have lost on every effort to get this passed.

This November 2006 the only way to have paper is by voting absentee by mail because there's no more legislative opportunities to get a paper record of votes this year. That doesn't mean we'll stop trying to get state legislation, plus continuing to support the Holt bill in Congress.

The reasons given for problems about whether absentee ballots are counted are valid. In Georgia we don't know if absentee votes are counted correctly -- the Diebold GEMS code is used for the optiscans to count the paper ballots.

That being said, the more people who vote absentee paper ballots in protest against the machines the better. After all, if there is a recount or contested election, there will be a paper record of our votes. And I'm not throwing my vote down the DRE rabbit hole even one more time. No way. I PROTEST!

So I say to you -- go for it.