Reply #5: How?

[BeFree]

Grassroots. Every person has to tell their 'officials' they are not happy with how their vote is counted.

Problem is, the officials love the computer counts. It absolves them of nearly all responsibility.
There have been huge screwups and the officials just say: it was the machines fault, don't look at us.

For a talking point, once you have the officials listening, is bring up the fact that there is no proper audit of the machined counts. If we are going to be using these machines, there needs to be a proper audit/accounting of the votes.

Ask them what audit or double check of the vote now exists. Usually the state laws describe the method and in most states, the experts agree, the audits lack meaning.

The past grassroots actions have been very successful. Nearly all the non-paper vote counting machines have been outlawed. It is amazing, really, when you consider that in 2004 nearly half the votes were counted by no-paper methods. And because of citizen complaints those machines have been done away with.