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diva77

(7,880 posts) Tue Jun 20, 2017, 11:03 PM Jun 2017

Whether or not Handel actually won, the focus should be on abolishing DREs that "elected" her [View all]

Is the Dem message soooo terrible that we need to tweak it everytime we "lose" or is it possible to consider that other factors played a major role (restating what has been said frequently on DU) : voter suppression, and total lack of transparency in the election process with the use of paperless DREs

It's time for citizens to demand transparent elections. Right now, elections officials are denying that elections lack transparency. This has to change.

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Whether or not Handel actually won, the focus should be on abolishing DREs that "elected" her [View all] diva77 Jun 2017 OP

I so agree! CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2017 #1

We need to repeat, over and over: "ALL elections must be with paper ballots and MUST be audited" JoeOtterbein Jun 2017 #2

We need paper ballots, hand counted at the precinct level with public oversight diva77 Jun 2017 #3

agreed; paper "trails" and occaisional audits are not as good as hand-counting, all the time. nt TheFrenchRazor Jun 2017 #10

It would also make election night more exciting n/t trentwestcott Jun 2017 #15

Not only paper ballots, but we also need to require an ID at the polls trentwestcott Jun 2017 #11

Do you have any idea how hard it would be to use in person voter fraud mythology Jun 2017 #14

It might not be an issue now, but if we block them from using the machines to cheat trentwestcott Jun 2017 #16

I think here in Ga. we MUST demand a verifiable audit trail! If we start today, we might be napi21 Jun 2017 #4

If you can get paper ballots, hand counted at precinct with results posted at precinct prior to diva77 Jun 2017 #5

Verifiable audit trail simply means the capability of tracing a vote from origin, no matter napi21 Jun 2017 #6

might help to contact people involved in filing GA lawsuit against SOS diva77 Jun 2017 #7

the problem is that the paper receipts will never see the light of day 99.999% of the time; in order TheFrenchRazor Jun 2017 #9

I'd like paper too, but I don't think that will ever happen. People are far to impatient to napi21 Jun 2017 #12

absolutely, because without verifiable elections, we never really know what "went wrong." TheFrenchRazor Jun 2017 #8

Amen and I say again Amen!!!! stevepal Jun 2017 #13