Obama/Biden A Common Sense Strategy for Future Elections, This isn't Rocket Science!!!! [View All]

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by Rady Ananda

While machine advocates try to justify electronic voting, even going so far as to add yet another electronic gadget (assuring us this is the magic bullet that will fix all our electronic voting system "glitches"), here's a less expensive, common sense strategy for 2007.

1. Require the Secretary of State to order each county that purchased DREs to prepare to implement a hand-counted paper ballot (HCPB) system by January 1, 2008.

2. Have each set of County Commissioners send a letter to all printers in their county seeking an estimate to print paper ballots, and asking them to submit a written protocol on chain of custody, so that the ballots printed are all accounted for at every moment from production to delivery to the Board of Elections.

3. Choose the printer according to most secure protocol, by reputation for quality and integrity, and then by cost. Each county is limited to using a local printer, and this will boost the local economy.

4. Train all counting team poll workers in the "sort and stack by candidate" method of counting, as used in New Hampshire. Train all poll workers in chain of custody protocol and other election procedures.

SNIP...This isn't rocket science, or computer science, nor is such expertise even necessary. Ordinary citizens are quite capable of running their own democratic elections in an accurate and honest fashion.



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