Voter Confidence Committee Gathers Community Support for Hand-Counting Paper Ballots

11/27/2007

Syndicated talk radio host Peter B. Collins will be broadcasting his afternoon radio show live on KGOE 1480 AM from the Eureka Theater on Friday. Local election integrity group the Voter Confidence Committee will be represented in the lobby promoting its recent Report on Election Conditions in Humboldt County, and collecting names from voters interested in and willing to hand-count paper ballots in place of the electronic voting machines currently used in the county, according to a Voter Confidence Committee news release.

“We want to provide the county with hundreds of names of voters who will do the work and help build a more involved electorate,” said VCC co-founder Dave Berman. “Hand-counting provides transparent, secure and verifiably accurate election results that we just can’t get with machines counting the votes in secret.”

Collins’ progressive talk show airs from 3-6 p.m. weekdays in Humboldt County and several other radio markets. Each Friday, Collins devotes the final hour of his program to the topic of election integrity.

“The integrity of our elections has declined sharply in recent years, partly due to exposure of the flawed processes in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004,” Collins. “The switch to touch-screen voting machines has made things worse, and each Friday at 5 p.m. we talk with Brad Friedman of Bradblog.com about the full range of issues that lead to corruption and loss of voter confidence. I think it’s really important.”

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candidates, again. How did that work out for us?

Thanks for posting this kster!

Thanks for posting (and x-posting) kster. Good to note this is not an article but actually a press release printed verbatim.

doing my little part to help. I like it when the election scam gets simplified like this, makes it easy to understand, for people that don't have the time in a day to know and/or understand what is going on with these vote counting machines.

Good piece of work, keep pushing. :thumbsup: