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: Make sure your vote is counted - be absentee on election day!
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:18:30 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: Art Wolinsky <awolinsky () oii org> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:29:00 To:dave () FARBER NET Subject: Make sure your vote is counted - be absentee on election day! For IP if appropriate. From a good friend in NM. Hi folks, If you've been following the stories about potential (past, present and future) fraud when electronic voting is not accompanied by any paper trail, I'm about to suggest two important courses of action. First, register as early as possible (state regulations vary, so check your particulars) for an absentee ballot. These ballots are collected in physical form and recorded in physical form, providing a means for an auditable paper trail so far not provided by current election plans. Second, notify your state of your intention to do this now, so that adequate preparations can be made for sufficient resources to handle what may be an unexpectedly large number of such requests. I plan to write a letter to the editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican this weekend (we have the NM caucus on Tuesday, when I'll be out of state and not able to vote, which led me to this idea for November). This is a personal choice, as well as a personal statement about the value we place on the integrity of our votes, and our right to make sure they are counted! We have already been informed that adding a paper trail to the electronic voting machines already contracted for 2004 "is not possible in the time available". Therefore, it is worth investigating other innovative, accountable means. Ferdi ______________________________________________________ Ferdi Serim phone/cell: 505 690-6039; fax: 505 466-1901 email: ferdi () oii org Online Internet Institute, Director http://oii.org Santa Fe, NM 87508 http://oii.org/ferdi/Ferdi.html ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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