L.A. County Registrar: 'No' to Internet Voting, But 'Yes' to Unverifiable Touch-Screens...

[BradBlog]

11. To be clear...

I was speaking about the fact that ALL of Oregon is now 100% Vote-by-Mail (unfortunately). If there are certain county's there experimenting with email ballot return, that may be the case. I don't know which ones they are and don't necessarily care.

Whether YOU trust them or not doesn't actually matter. The fact is, that even if they are "trustworthy", it may not be them intercepting ballots and changing them before they even arrive at the clerks office. Moreover, even if they are not intercepted, and even if you trust the election officials, I promise you there are those who do not. And they too deserve an election system in which they can have confidence and oversight.

As to your secret ballot point, you are welcome to tell anybody you like about who you voted for. But the secret ballot is not just meant to keep the ballot a secret for those who don't want to tell the world who they voted for. It's meant to keep employers from threatening employees, husbands from threatening wives, and bad guys from buying and/or selling their votes -- all of which, by the way, pretty much goes out the window in an all vote-by-mail system like the one now used across the state of Oregon. And that is true whether they use vote-by-mail or send-ballots-via-email.