We would all be immensely better off with no Federal Bill at all. Any Federal bill should be two lines long: "Every election will be held on paper ballots which will be counted by hand in the precinct before the ballot box is moved. The count will be conducted in the manner used by the state of Maine."

Maybe a third line. "One DRE will be in the precinct for the use of the disabled. No other voter will use it."  And a forth:  "The EAC is hereby abolished."

Only then will he have honest elections again, and will be able to keep our fellow citizens from being murdered by these thugs who have usurped power.

by GitarChris (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 142 comments) on Monday, Sep 3, 2007 at 1:20:22 PM

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I agree that HR-811 isn't an airtight faulty electronic voting machine prevention bill.

However, it wasn't designed to completely prevent bad tallies, only to audit them, and catch bad electronic equipment in the act through statistical quality control.

Congress is so out of touch that they'd never entertain a hand-count bill short of serious public outcry.  They are currently willing to entertain HR-811's audit, though, and that audit could easily set off a fire-storm of public awareness -- and thus the political will for paper-only hand-count ballots -- when these machines are proven to be the horribly faulty devices most of us think they are.

HR-811 -- could just be a hand-count purist's best friend.

by Mark-MyWords (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 7 comments) on Tuesday, Sep 4, 2007 at 10:00:53 PM

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Any corporation's right to protect the privacy of its product should end at the public's right to have its will known in public elections.

by Rrrandy-Steve (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 16 comments) on Tuesday, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:49:11 PM

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