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How to protect your votes from going AWOL

Chicago--The Illinois Ballot Integrity Project offers this advice to voters:

1) Vote on paper, not on a touch-screen.

2) Vote in person, not by mail.

3) Vote on election day, not earlier.

4) Report election abuses! (If you live in Illinois, see the list of hotlines at http://ballot-integrity.org/callin.htm Also, please post a public report at http://ballot-integrity.org/blog )

Ballots cast in this way are less subject to loss, damage, or alteration than ballots that spend more time out of public view.

Touch-screen machines are particularly prone to malfunction. Though they are designed to produce a paper receipt for backup, this safeguard is deficient.

* Receipts rarely get used to check the machine count.

* Most voters do not confirm their receipt.

* Many receipts turn out to be defective.

* A machine's data and receipts can be replaced wholesale once the machine is out of sight.

Protect your votes from going AWOL. Vote in person, and ask for a paper ballot.

[An earlier version of this article appeared in OpEdNews on January 28, 2008.]

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Roy Lipscomb, Vice-Chair, Director for Technology, Illinois Ballot Integrity Project

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Why not tell the truth, Roy? by Mark E. Smith on Thursday, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:32:12 AM

I agree with most of your sentiment, Mark by meremark on Thursday, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:41:08 AM

Re: I agree with most of your sentiment, Mark by Roy Lipscomb on Thursday, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:16:25 PM

I'll be following the author's advice by Tony Forest on Thursday, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:11:03 PM

Selfish and inconsiderate? by Mark E. Smith on Thursday, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:00:33 PM

Obama by shirley reese on Thursday, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:17:46 PM

Even optical scanners can be messed-with. by Jill Herendeen on Thursday, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:25:21 PM

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