This resolution puts the US League of Women Voters in the very forefront of the effort to fix American democracy because, unlike some other prominent nation-wide "election integrity" groups, the US League of Women Voters recognizes that:
1. voter-verified paper ballots are insufficient in themselves unless some of them are hand-counted in audits that check the machine counts, and
2. the paper ballot should be the official record (not the electronic ballot).
Without independent audits, any voting system is wide-open to error and tampering.
A hearty "Thank You" to the delegates who took the time to attend the US League of Women Voters Summer Conference in Minneapolis and vote in favor of this patriotic resolution. Thank you for fighting to preserve our democracy and our freedom and way of life.
The vast majority of US voting systems are in much worse shape today than they were in 2000 or 2004 because the reach of any one technical person to undetectably e-rig elections extends to more locales than ever before in U.S. history. (For instance one Diebold technician could conceivably undetectably rig elections in 37 states. Yet the vast majority of states which use Diebolds, like Utah, have taken no meaningful actions which would prevent, detect, or correct such malfeasance. And Diebold is probably not the only voting system with such flaws.)
The National Election Data Archive has a do-able plan to detect vote miscounts,despite such flawed voting systems, by analyzing detailed vote count data that we have a legal right to obtain in most states, but which election officials do not routinely publicly release in any state.
Without analyzing detailed vote count data prior to candidates' conceding, insiders could undetectably pad votes for one candidate in one vote-type and subtract votes for a different candidate in another vote type, or tamper with one vote-type. Evidence of these problems appeared in both states where we were able to obtain the detailed data after the 2004 election -- New Mexico and Washington state.
Please help NEDA to complete the system so that we can actively monitor election results in all states. Donate to US Count Votes' National Election Data Archive (NEDA) Project.
We need $2000/month to pay NEDA's new programmer to complete the functionality and backup system for obtaining detailed vote count data and making it publicly available from the over 3300 separate county election offices in America.
Please see http://electionarchive.org to donate or find out how candidates, voters, and political parties can ensure that the correct candidates are sworn into office.
Please see http://electionarchive.net if you would like to sign up to help obtain the data for your own county or state.
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Kathy Dopp
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