California cooking the paper-ballot option

[Judi Lynn]

Tuesday, October 19, 2004
California cooking the paper-ballot option
California may have a law requiring its electoral overseers to offer paper ballots to voters this election, but the people who run the elections want to fix it so that you never find out about it.

Pollworkers in Santa Clara County are being trained not to offer voters a chance to use paper ballots instead of electronic voting machines, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has learned. California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley mandated in May that all polling places offer a paper ballot option, which would allow people concerned about e-voting machine reliability a chance to vote on paper ballots at the polls. But pollworkers in Santa Clara County are being instructed not to tell voters that this option is available. Instead, they will make paper ballots available only if voters specifically request them.
(snip/)

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/19/california_cooking_t.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Then someone needs to make signs

and post them just outside the protected area around polling places telling people about this option.