A Constitutional Amendment restore democracy:Paper ballots and Hand counts

[In Truth We Trust]

Want your government back? Lets do it through a constitutional amendment requireing paper ballots and hand counts!!

[LSparkle]

1. I agree -- if we could wait over a month through an election contest

we can wait a week to find out who our new president REALLY is.

[ixion]

2. and to never ever ever let anyone associated with the BFEE

anywhere near the public trust.

[Ebaum]

3. sounds like a good idea

electronic voting machines scare the crap out of me because the ease at which one can screw with it and have no evidence is extremely high.

[In Truth We Trust]

5. Welcome to DU... Peace Ebaum

[newyawker99]

7. Hi Ebaum!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Trillo]

4. How about a redundant system?

Electronic Machines for fast results, Paper Ballots a requirement, and then, additionally, handcounting of 100% of all Paper Ballots for absolute verification of 'fast results'?

Completely forget 1% auditing if certain threshold conditions are met. Just hand recount everything as a check and balance on the other.

[Selatius]

6. There are ONLY two DIFFICULT ways to amend the Constitution

There are two ways to amend the Constitution:

Article V of the Constitution provides two methods for adding Amendments. Congress introduces amendments by one method; the states initiate them under the other.

The only method ever used is the congressional method. It lets Congress pass constitutional amendments by a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Such amendments must then be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures or special state conventions, as Congress determines. Over 10,000 amendments have been introduced into Congress since 1789. Only 33 have been approved. Of these, 27 have been ratified and added to the Constitution.

The other way of amending the Constitution has never been successfully used. Under this procedure, the states initiate the amending process by petitioning Congress for a constitutional convention. When two-thirds of the states have submitted petitions, Congress must call a convention. Any amendments approved by such a convention must be ratified by three-fourths of the states. Congress decides whether state legislatures or state conventions will ratify these amendments.

Since the Constitution went into effect, there have been about 400 petitions from state legislatures calling for a convention to consider one thing or another. None of these efforts ever succeeded, but some came close. For years Congress ignored requests to pass an amendment allowing for the direct election of U.S. senators. Finally, in 1912, Congress passed the 17th Amendment, but only after supporters of the amendment were just one state short of triggering a constitutional convention.

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSInfoDiscAct-DoWeNeedANewConstConvention912.htm