Federal Paper Ballot Act of 2004 - Insist on Hand Counted Paper Ballots

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Insist on Hand Counted Paper Ballots for Federal Offices
Federal Paper Ballot Act of 2004


From http://www.votersunite.org


(1) All votes for federal offices shall be cast on paper ballots.

(2) All votes for federal offices shall be hand counted at the polling places where the votes were cast, and the manual count shall constitute the official count of the votes.

(3) Manually-tallied precinct totals for all federal offices shall be prominently posted at the polling places before the ballots are transported to the central facility.

(4) In any jurisdiction where votes for federal office are also counted by machine, the machine totals for federal offices shall be posted at the location where the votes are machine-counted.

(5) All absentee votes for federal offices shall be counted by hand, and the totals shall be posted at the central election office.

(6) This act is effective on the date of enactment.

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Insist that your legislators understand ...

... a questionable, unauditable election in November could lead to massive court challenges and tear the country apart.

... an electronic federal election will result in a national crisis in November, regardless of the election outcome.

... it is the responsibility of Congress to avert a national crisis. This legislation will avert that crisis.

... you will not cast your vote for them in November unless they support this legislation.

Insist that they introduce and support the Federal Paper Ballot Act of 2004.



Congress has the power to dictate the election method for federal elections, and that method must be hand counted paper ballots. Contact your Representative and Senators now, in August, before they resume the session in September.

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[Zan_of_Texas]

1. Good. Very Good.

I have to admit, the first time Lynn Landes told me the solution was paper ballots, I thought she was a bit teched in the head.

But after 17 months of study and talking with experts, my own opinion is that the computers are for speed and convenience of election officials (they think) and for people to think they are getting all modern and slick, and certainly for vendors to make millions, and almost certainly to make vote thievery faster and easier and impossible to detect. The voting computers are most certainly NOT being implemented for honest, transparent, verifiable elections.

Paper is our best solution. The computers just confuse the issue.

I'm almost to the point where I think we should have small precincts -- say, 200 registered voters, and have a morning meeting and an evening meeting with a show of hands. So, we lose confidentiality. We'd be done. Count off, post the results, and audit and verify as they go up to county/regional levels.

You'll note that when the machines break down -- which they have done hundreds of times -- what do the officials do? They go to paper temporarily. Have you ever seen paper balloting break down, and they switch to computers?!?!?!?! No!