Will voting absentee send an appropriate message?

[Earth_First]

Aside from knowing exactly who I cast my ballot for (assuming that my ballot is not "lost" in transfer) Would a large-scale nationwide absentee ballot initiative send a message that we are not going to accept Diebold and ES&S DRE technology to conduct the democratic voting process?

[badgerpup]

1. It's worth a shot...

IF..and only if...enough people get behind the movement and do it.
An avalanche of absentee ballots will speak loud and clear.
Forty or fifty over the norm will be dismissed as :tinfoilhat: leftist whackos.

[AndyTiedye]

2. Absentee Votes Are Even Easier to "Lose"

You ballot got lost in the mail, too bad.

[tenshi816]

7. That's what I worried about in the 2004 election.

I paid the extra international postage to make sure that someone had to sign for it so I'd know there was no "lost in the mail" BS. Of course, since I'm registered to vote in a very red Georgia county, I've always wondered if when the envelope was opened, was my ballot shown to everyone in the voting registrar's office as an example of what a Democratic vote looked like (since they probably had never seen one), and then promptly fed into the shredder.

[FloridaPat]

3. In 2000, one county here in Florida went through the absentee

ballots and got rid of the ones that weren't complete - and were from Democrats. The repub ones they filled in the missing information. That went to court and the judge says the ballots stay, even though it was illegal to do that.

[mrdmk]

4. Oh, that was nice of them to fill in that misforgotten information

:dilemma:

[Lindacooks]

5. In Minnesota, after Wellstone was killed, absentee ballots for him

were discarded, and those people couldn't vote again. Absentee ballots for that weasel Coleman were counted. That system is flawed as well.

[magellan]

6. NO WAY!! In my FL county absentee ballots are counted using DIEBOLD

All our precincts use Diebold's AccuVote optical scan machines with GEMS software. "Lost" or "lost" -- I can never be sure my vote is counted properly no matter how I do it anymore.