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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAbrams Super Bowl Ad Calls for 'HAND-MARKED Paper Ballots'!
http://bradblog.com/ January 31, 2019Georgia Democrat and potential U.S. Senate candidate Stacey Abrams, who will be giving the Democratic response to the State of the Union Address on Tuesday, is set to run a television ad during Sunday's Super Bowl in Atlanta with a north Georgia Republican County Commissioner calling for HAND-MARKED paper ballots in the state!
The ad is sponsored by Abrams' non-partisan voting rights organization Fair Fight, formed after Abrams is said to have very narrowly lost her contest to become the nation's first African-American female governor last November to Republican Secretary of State and champion vote suppressor Brian Kemp. Both he and his GOP successor are now calling for the state's 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting systems to be replaced with new, very expensive and also 100% unverifiable touchscreen systems that produce computer-marked, human-unreadable barcoded ballot summary cards, rather than hand-marked paper ballots which computer science and voting systems experts all agree http://bradblog.com/Docs/ExpertsLettertoSAFECommission_GA_BMDs_010719.pdf to be the most secure, auditable and overseeable way to carry out elections;
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Abrams Super Bowl Ad Calls for 'HAND-MARKED Paper Ballots'! (Original Post)
diva77
Jan 2019
OP
May Justice finally prevail on this vitally important point. Ms. Abrams speaks for honest Americans.
Judi Lynn
Feb 2019
#6
hand markes,hand counted in full public view is the only way we can take the country back
questionseverything
Feb 2019
#7
delisen
(6,044 posts)1. Abrams is a winner. Dynamic and Committed to Honest Elections
CurtEastPoint
(18,656 posts)2. What does Turtleboy call it? "Dems power grab?"
Me.
(35,454 posts)3. Politicians Pay Attention
Money to where mouth is here
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,403 posts)4. paper ballots everywhere
People can't watch electrons.
2naSalit
(86,767 posts)5. YES!!!
Been harping on this for days in my offline world and all day here on DU.
Demand it now, don't wait till it's too late!!
Judi Lynn
(160,601 posts)6. May Justice finally prevail on this vitally important point. Ms. Abrams speaks for honest Americans.
Her idea is the only one good for the country.
questionseverything
(9,657 posts)7. hand markes,hand counted in full public view is the only way we can take the country back
theophilus
(3,750 posts)8. I agree. I also would like to see a mandatory recount of, say, 6 states: 3
red and 3 blue. If there are no "irregularities" then what's done is done. If anything looks funny then a full recount. Or some such.....