Since my vote will be decided by Diebold if I stay in the county

[NoBushSpokenHere]

that has already approved the machines, maybe I should 'move' to another county that doesn't have them? Maybe if all the dems and liberals 'moved' to counties who resisted unverifiable machines, and left the Republicans behind to vote on the Blackwell machines......maybe, just maybe......???

I know we had alot of chatter just after Nov 2nd about blues in red states moving, etc., but what about moving out of counties with the corrupt boards? Let the Blackwell machines count.....but let my vote be counted in a county that verifies?

Sleep deprived tonight......apologies for not stating this better, but I think I made my point, your thoughts?

[napi21]

1. Do you have the option of absentee voting?

Since the entire State of Ga has adopted electronic voting, I know a lot of people who have opted to file absentee ballots. I realize there's no way to guarantee that all of them are received or counted, but at least it's a paper ballot!

[NoBushSpokenHere]

2. I voted absentee last election and seriously doubt it was counted. n/t

[Kip Humphrey]

4. A paper ballot that's scanned in and counted digitally is no different

When the ballot that's counted is digital, its a hidden ballot secretly counted. Without auditing the entire digital vote processing system, there are no guarantees and should be no expectation that your vote is counted or counted accurately. paper ballot or no paper ballot.

The problem and the threat is not the voting input device in and of itself; it is the digital vote processing system that tabulates and counts the votes. Without significant mandatory, real-time, random, paper audits of the digital vote processing system, there can be no assurance votes are recorded and counted accurately.

Paper without system audits is a false panacea that does little more than give the voter a false sense of confidence in an otherwise corruptible voting system.

[Stevepol]

3. I voted absentee as well, but I've since decided it doesn't matter.

In small local elections it might make a difference. In national elections, the central tabulator decides the vote so it doesn't matter if your vote was recorded on a local floppy or cartridge or in one large list downtown in some office. Once all these cartridges and floppies and lists put their information into the central tabulator, the vote is changed either by wireless (or non-wirless) hacking or patching or in some other way to conform to the result the voting companies decide.