Vote-PAD: The Simple voting device that MAY SAVE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

[JohnWxy]

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/01/con06041.html

a couple excerpts (emphasis my own):

At approximately one-tenth of the cost of competing (and crappy) electronic devices, the Vote-PAD (which stands for "Voting-on-Paper Assistive Device") was designed by Ellen Theisen, the former Executive Director of the non-partisan election watchdog group, VotersUnite.org. She created it along with the cooperation of people with dexterity and visual impairments.

It may well be the solution that exasperated Elections officials across the country have been praying for.

State and County Elections officials from coast to coast to coast are now in a mad, confused, frustrated scramble trying to figure out how the hell to comply with and make sense of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) legislation.

HAVA has proven to be an unmitigated disaster, gamed as it was from the start by Congressmen like Ohio's Bob Ney working in cahoots with voting machine companies. The effort has shamefully employed disabilities groups like the National Federation for the Blind (NFB) and American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), who received more than a million dollars from companies such as Diebold, Inc., to help trump up the sympathy factor in order to force jurisdictions to purchase unreliable electronic voting machines (read: junk), said to be needed by disabled voters who would be unable to vote in secret without assistance from others.

[Trevelyan]

1. This is the most important issue for taking back our country

Thanks for posting. I try to visit http://www.BradBlog.com as often as I can to support the excellent and steadfast work he is doing to restore an honest vote to US citizens.

http://www.BlackboxVoting.org is continuing their work with exposing the fraudulent voting machines.

"For more on Ney, Cunningham, Blackwell and other early supporters of HAVA, see here:
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/show.cgi?tpc=2197&post=16034#POST16034

"The Soon-to-be-Indicted Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio's Connection To Electoral Fraud
The Dots Connect Between Abramoff, Ohio 2004 Election Smokescreen and Ney's Former Staffer Revealed to be on Diebold's Payroll While Working for White House Law Firm All the While as HAVA -- America's 'Election Reform' Bill -- is Used for Political Payoff in the Bargain..."

[JohnWxy]

4. THANKS FOR THE GREAT WEB-SITES!

This is a matter that the Corporate Network News outlets REALLY stay away from. You wouldn't even know there was a fight for our democracy going on.

[Peace Patriot]

2. You wonder why we have a consistent 60/40 anti-Bush majority in this

country--on all issue polls over several years, and all approval polls over this last year (with Bush's numbers being weak all along, including in 2004 leading up to the election--so weak that Zogby said he couldn't win), and yet...

...we always get 60/40 pro-Bush votes in Congress?

This is why. Tom Delay. Bob Ney. Diebold and ES&S. And the electronic voting scandal. Two wingnut Bushite corporations counting all our votes with TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code and virtually no audit/recount controls.

It's re-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-eal simple.

[greiner3]

3. You can't leave out old blackwell here in Ohio;

He may be the next governator and really control the elections here for the next decade.