I wish there was more talk & reporting on voter suppression, "Cross-check", voting machines...

[Equinox Moon]

I heard on the radio and read an article that GA-6 had a voter roll purge right before the election. You know that matters! How many people showed up to vote and found out they were not on the voter roll?

I hear about voting machines that are electronic with no paper trail back-up for count verification. Why? Why have machines like this?

The gerrymandering has been a huge issue! There is something coming before the supreme court about it, but we don't know if it will make this better or worse.

The list goes on and on with our voting system - the only way we elect people to office. I wish we talked about it more and posted more about these issues.

Plus, we should have regular vote tally audits, at random, similar to how the IRS keeps all of us honest with random audits. Maybe there is something in place that I don't know about.

[Kolesar]

1. Vote counting is optimized to hurry the tabulation

The priority should be accuracy. Our systems seemed to be designed so that the county BOE officials can publish the results and get to bed at their regular hour.

A system with paper ballots is slow, but it is more accurate and can actually be recounted. It also has zero chance of intentional rigging of the vote count. There may be other systems than paper that work, but I don't have confidence in ESS or Diebold designs.

"I'm working on a thesis here". I might rewrite it to get it published.

[Equinox Moon]

3. Great, please do share your thesis work on voting!

Good for you that that was the topic you chose.

[Kolesar]

8. I meant a concise letter to the editor

I like the word thesis. Thanks for the encouragement. I might need a proof reader.

[Gothmog]

2. The GOP is the party of voter suppression and relies on voter suppression to win races

[CK_John]

4. First the process needs to be known, the states control the process but

that doesn't tell who budgets the money to fund voting equipment. In some states the state gives a grant to their county to buy and install equipment, in others the state makes the decision and then passed done to the county.

Who runs elections, mostly volunteers citizens who need their grand kids to send photos on the smart phone, party officials to make sure coffee and donuts show 2 or 3 times a day..

[Equinox Moon]

5. Maybe we need a universal voting method for all states?

Voting is the roots of our democracy and how the politicians get into office. This is a really big deal and I think many votes have been stolen from people. I know the DNC appointed one person in regards to voting, maybe that has grown into an entire department. I don't know.

[lostnfound]

6. With the GOP in office they would standardize on something easily hackable. Nt

[CK_John]

7. That would require constitutional amendment since we are a republic of 50 states.

We need to learn the process and work with it and not whine after the election.