Reply #19: A SIMPLE IDEA: [View All]

A simple idea: get together with your neighbors
to politely but unyieldingly insist that in the next election, your ballots be counted at your voting precinct, where the public's presence can assure that nothing is done to manipulate the count. The law in many states says that this is required.

Right-wing Technology-Oriented folks favor Paper Ballots.
The age-old paper ballot is far superior to any computerized voting scheme. See the online article titled Paper Ballots.

Paper Ballots can be counted in short time. If Americans can count as well as the French, then we can finish counting our country's paper ballots in a few hours. Christopher Bollyn, reporter, witnessed an election in France:

"When it comes time to count, as many citizens as can fit in the room are allowed to come in and watch the counting. Sworn election officials, some from each party in the election, in front of all the observers, count the ballots into piles of 100. Each set of ballots is placed in a bag. Then, one bag at a time, the election officials count the ballots, announcing each one. They tally up one bag and move on to the next, until all are done.

It takes a relatively short time to count 1,000 votes, and by having many election precincts throughout the country, all of France can be counted in a matter of hours, in front of thousands of eyes." (From Black Box Voting, Chap. 14, p. 196)

http://www.lionsgrip.com/voting2004paperballots.html