Lousiaina is choosing new voting machines

[Eric J in MN]

Please contact the Secretary of State and your state reps. in support of optical-scan (fill in the oval) ballots.

They have a built-in paper trail.

Voters can easily check them.

Lines of voters are shorter since all you need for a polling booth is a table.

There is contact info at:
www.vote-smart.org

An article on Lousiaina choosing new machines is at:

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1106086743184271.xml&storylist=louisiana

[In Truth We Trust]

1. Paper ballots NOW!!!! Hand counts Now!!!!!

nothing more and nothing less!!!!!

[Liberty Belle]

2. No! Opti-scans have many problems.

In San Diego, one-third of Diebold optical scanners broke down on election day, some for the ENTIRE day.

In Florida, fishy results iwth opti-scans led to suspicions of tampering.

Paper ballots are best. Failing that, there are machines that provide voter-verifiable paper receipts. Also, check out ownership of the voting machine company in question. Look up the CEO, top officers, and any advisory committee members. Compare that against a list of GOP donors at www.opensecrets.org. No partisan ownership of voting machines!

Also, lobby your secretary of state and legislators to prevent voting machine companies or other private companies from being allowed to count votes or transport ballots. Lots of shennanigans when this was done in Ohio and elsewhere.

[Eric J in MN]

3. Electronic voting machines are the worst, even if they

print paper ballots, they malfunction, break down, and don't always show the needed races.

Also, most voters dont' check the printout from electronic voting machines, it was found in Navada which used electronic voting machines with print paper ballots in some precincts in Nov.