There ought to be a very well stated rationale why not to.
I've thought about these questions as much as any of you, and I do not see any good reason to oppose this bill.
Yes, it's only temporary, and no, it doesn't REQUIRE providing paper ballots everywhere-- I wish it did.
This Midterm election is temporary too -- except that it will have HUGE consequences that remain the day after.
Advocating a paper ballot in the polls for anyone who wants one does not preclude us from simultaneously pursuing the longer-range solution of HCPB that we are pursuing anyhow.
There is no logical or principled contradiction involved.
Yes, we want all HCPB. No, that won't be possible this election.
Yes we want everyone who goes to vote, to have their vote counted.
Their vote CANNOT be counted if they CANNOT VOTE because of machine breakdowns, pollworker confusion, long lines, etc.
This bill can be the biggest education on election integrity that the masses of American voters are going to get,
and everything about the lesson drives home the primacy of paper.
That message is the fundamental basis for the whole E I movement.
PAPER doesn't break down.
Paper is permanent.
Paper cannot be stolen with the flick of an invisible switch.
Paper leaves an unambiguous record of the voter's intent (yes we know recounts are rare) but you can't possibly ever recount if there is no paper.
We do not have the publicity power to get across a lesson like this every day.
Now we have the NYT, broadcast television, and the backward mainstream liberal groups we so often complain about, all doing the heavy lifting for us.
(see True Majority ad below as an example)
We need to get out front on this and be counted in the affirmative.
Dan Ashby
Co-Founder, ElectionDefenseAlliance.org
Voting Machines Break. Paper Doesn't
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