Get Out Your Pencils: Paper Ballots Make a Return

[babylonsister]

Get Out Your Pencils: Paper Ballots Make a Return
By Richard Wolf
USA Today


Thursday 28 February 2008


Cleveland - The people involved in overseeing elections will be watching closely Tuesday as Ohio's most populous county votes, but it won't have anything to do with Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton or John McCain.

No place in the nation has had as much trouble running an election in recent years as Cuyahoga County. As it moved from punch cards in 2004 to touch screens in 2006, servers crashed, printers jammed, memory cards disappeared and poll workers were overwhelmed.

So this year, it's back to basics: paper. Voters will fill in ovals the way high school students do on the SATs. They'll drop the ballots in a box, which will be taken to a county warehouse to be counted.

Sound simple? It's not.


more...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022908H.shtml

[Stevepol]

1. K&R! REAL ELECTIONS! WHAT A CONCEPT!!!!

[seafan]

2. This is progress, but the ballots MUST be hand-counted at the precinct.

The optical scanning machines are not trustworthy.

The paper ballots must be hand-counted at the precinct level, under direct public observation, with the totals posted on the precinct door and called in to the Secretary of State's office.

Not counted by yet another machine in some dingy, windowless warehouse, locking out public observers...



This is mandatory for all federal elections, IMHO.



This is THE most critical issue for us in reclaiming our elections process and placing it firmly back into the hands of The People.

[Vincardog]

3. This is THE most critical issue for us in reclaiming our elections process and placing it firmly bac

[superkia]

6. And counted by leagit people not corrupt ones with names like...

john and jane doe like back when bush was stealing elections.

[Kurovski]

4. K&R. (nt)

[bonito]

5. K&R!