This is a citizen-run parallel election to check the accuracy of the machines (not to check the accuracy of any person).
Our primary goal is to ascertain how each precinct voted in the official election.
This is a poll in which we want ALL voters to participate. In this type of poll, your vote is secret.
Accurately counting the vote ensures democracy; double-checking that count ensures accuracy.
A hand-count of paper ballots provides a valid statistical sample that may detect discrepancies between the official reported results and how citizens themselves report how they voted. Parallel Election ballots may also provide legal evidence for a court challenge.
We can't count electrons, but we can count paper ballots. No public official can demonstrate that our votes are counted as cast when they are counted with secret software.
PLEASE DONATE to help defray costs of Parallel Elections: www.FreePress.org
RESOURCES
http://www.blackboxvoting.org The gnarly details on hacking a computerized voting system
http://www.bradblog.com Breaking stories on legal contests to stop election tampering, and more
http://www.caseohio.org Citizens share info on elections; focused on Ohio
http://www.ohiovigilance.org Citizens share info on elections; focused on Ohio
http://www.electionfraudnews.com Election contest documents uploaded for viewing
http://election.solarbus.org Excellent site to find current info and to learn who's doing what
http://www.eon3.net DVDs: "Help America Vote on Paper," 2006; and "Got Democracy?" 2005
http://www.freepress.org Contesting Ohio elections; DONATE TO PARALLEL ELECTION COSTS
http://www.guvwurld.org Visionary essays on peaceful evolution, including elections
http://www.nosleepovers.org San Diego citizens seek to obtain election oversight
http://www.studycaliforniaballots.org More info on how to run a parallel election, California-style
http://votergate.org Watch the movie
http://www.votescam.com Her father & uncle broke the story on computerized voting - back in 1979!
http://www.wecount2006.org Report voting problems to ReportOhio@wecount2006.org
FURTHER READING
Brennan Center Report on US Elections. 2006. Denounces the use of electronic voting systems.
http://www.brennancenter.org/programs/downloads/full%20report.pdf
Michael Collins, Congressional Election Nullified - Nobody Noticed. August 2006. Follow the absorbing details of how California Registrar of Voters Mikel Haas violated state and federal laws by sending voting machines on sleepovers to poll worker homes, and how the San Diego County Court subverted State rights by allowing uncertified, suspect results to stand. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/hl0608/s00316.htm
John Conyers, Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio, Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff. January 2005. www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohiostatusrept1505.pdf
Harry Hursti, Expert Hacks Voting Machines in Leon County, Florida. Harry Hursti showed in December 2005 that vendors have done little to nothing to upgrade the security of electronic voting technology. Actual technical report can be found at http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbvtsxstudy.pdf and a New York Times explanation is at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/us/12vote.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
Wall Street Journal: Reversing Course on Electronic Voting: Some Former Backers of Technology Seek Return to Paper Ballots, Citing Glitches, Fraud Fears. May 2006. Former Secretary of State James A. Baker and former President Jimmy Carter, who co-chaired the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, warned in their 2005 final report of fraud. "Software can be modified maliciously before being installed into individual voting machines. There is no reason to trust insiders in the election industry any more than in other industries." http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/sb114739688261250925-q5rh2ocioxu6mgjms6bzpczl0hy_20060610.html
Washington Post: A Single Person Could Swing an Election. June 28, 2006.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/27/ar2006062701451.html
Zogby Poll: 92% of voters agree that citizens have the right to view and obtain information about how election officials count votes. http://www.zogby.com/news/readnews.dbm?id=1163
"If we don't have the trust of the governed in our society,
then we don't have the consent of the governed."
Megan Matson, www.TheMMOB.org, February 2005
Our primary goal is to ascertain how each precinct voted in the official election.
This is a poll in which we want ALL voters to participate. In this type of poll, your vote is secret.
Accurately counting the vote ensures democracy; double-checking that count ensures accuracy.
We can't count electrons, but we can count paper ballots. No public official can demonstrate that our votes are counted as cast when they are counted with secret software.
PLEASE DONATE to help defray costs of Parallel Elections: www.FreePress.org
RESOURCES
http://www.blackboxvoting.org The gnarly details on hacking a computerized voting system
http://www.bradblog.com Breaking stories on legal contests to stop election tampering, and more
http://www.caseohio.org Citizens share info on elections; focused on Ohio
http://www.ohiovigilance.org Citizens share info on elections; focused on Ohio
http://www.electionfraudnews.com Election contest documents uploaded for viewing
http://election.solarbus.org Excellent site to find current info and to learn who's doing what
http://www.eon3.net DVDs: "Help America Vote on Paper," 2006; and "Got Democracy?" 2005
http://www.freepress.org Contesting Ohio elections; DONATE TO PARALLEL ELECTION COSTS
http://www.guvwurld.org Visionary essays on peaceful evolution, including elections
http://www.nosleepovers.org San Diego citizens seek to obtain election oversight
http://www.studycaliforniaballots.org More info on how to run a parallel election, California-style
http://votergate.org Watch the movie
http://www.votescam.com Her father & uncle broke the story on computerized voting - back in 1979!
http://www.wecount2006.org Report voting problems to ReportOhio@wecount2006.org
FURTHER READING
Brennan Center Report on US Elections. 2006. Denounces the use of electronic voting systems.
http://www.brennancenter.org/programs/downloads/full%20report.pdf
Michael Collins, Congressional Election Nullified - Nobody Noticed. August 2006. Follow the absorbing details of how California Registrar of Voters Mikel Haas violated state and federal laws by sending voting machines on sleepovers to poll worker homes, and how the San Diego County Court subverted State rights by allowing uncertified, suspect results to stand. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/hl0608/s00316.htm
John Conyers, Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio, Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff. January 2005. www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohiostatusrept1505.pdf
Harry Hursti, Expert Hacks Voting Machines in Leon County, Florida. Harry Hursti showed in December 2005 that vendors have done little to nothing to upgrade the security of electronic voting technology. Actual technical report can be found at http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbvtsxstudy.pdf and a New York Times explanation is at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/us/12vote.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
Wall Street Journal: Reversing Course on Electronic Voting: Some Former Backers of Technology Seek Return to Paper Ballots, Citing Glitches, Fraud Fears. May 2006. Former Secretary of State James A. Baker and former President Jimmy Carter, who co-chaired the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, warned in their 2005 final report of fraud. "Software can be modified maliciously before being installed into individual voting machines. There is no reason to trust insiders in the election industry any more than in other industries." http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/sb114739688261250925-q5rh2ocioxu6mgjms6bzpczl0hy_20060610.html
Washington Post: A Single Person Could Swing an Election. June 28, 2006.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/27/ar2006062701451.html
Zogby Poll: 92% of voters agree that citizens have the right to view and obtain information about how election officials count votes. http://www.zogby.com/news/readnews.dbm?id=1163
"If we don't have the trust of the governed in our society,
then we don't have the consent of the governed."
Megan Matson, www.TheMMOB.org, February 2005
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