NOT EVERYONE IN THE REGION will use the same method to vote. All cities and counties must follow the same rules when it comes to who can vote, what identification voters must bring, and voting times and deadlines. But the voting equipment varies. For example, two types of touch-screen systems are used in our region. And in Portsmouth, most voters use pencils to fill in paper ballots that are fed into a scanner for counting. Here’s a quick overview of voting systems.
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Paper Ballots in VB?
I read an article online (not a VA Pilot article, I think it was actually based in the UK) that said there were "numerous reports" of an understaffed voting facility in VB, where paper ballots were flying around on the floor and people were picking them up and stuffing them in the ballot box! Now, I'm a VB voter (Pembroke Elem. was my spot) and a Pilot reader, and both my reading and my experience tell me that VB didn't use paper ballots, only P-town did. When I started to write an email to the publishers of that article my boyfriend told me that on the radio (probably NPR, knowing him) they said some places in VB DID use paper ballots. Is there anyone out there who can clarify this for me?
On another note, I must agree that electronic voting will be the death of democracy in the US. That and the military/police. And the two-party system. Wow, I could go on. Land of the free, what?
Touch screen machines should be outlawed
Touch screen voting machines should be outlawed. They will be the end of American democracy. EVERY BALLOT should have a paper trail. Paper ballots and ink pens with an optical scanner is the best method. Ask your representatives in the Virginia legislature to outlaw touch screen machines.
Possibilities of vote fraud against both Dems and Repubs.
Chesapeake, Norfolk, Virgina Beach, Suffolk...nice to know that some guy sitting at a keyboard can nullify or tamper with your votes and there is no paper trail....They wouldn't do that would they? They have and they would. Demand paper ballots.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4047021
"Ohio voters filed a lawsuit about the 2004 election. They want to take the deposition of Mike Connell, a Republican IT "guru" who set up the computers for counting the votes in Ohio. There has been a stay on the case for some time, and the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, Cliff Arnebeck, has filed a motion requesting a lifting of the stay so that he can depose Mike Connell under oath and ask him about his 20 years of work for the Bush family and for many, many Republican politicians and causes, and specifically his computer/IT work for Ken Blackwell in Ohio 2004...In a supporting affidavit from Mr. Spoonamore (filed along with the motion for relief from stay), Spoonamore writes that Connell "clearly agrees that the electronic voting systems in the US are not secure." He continues, "Mr. Connell is a devout Catholic. He has admitted to me that in