Tuesday, April 26, 2005

''What Can We the People Do About Election Fraud?''

"During the two and a half years that The Crisis Papers has been on the web, we have posted hundreds of articles and links on our Election 2004 Fraud and Electoral Integrity pages. In addition I have written and published numerous essays about the issue, most recently just two weeks ago. On each occasion, I have received numerous letters telling me "I'm convinced that the elections are fraudulent," then asking, "now what can I do about it?"

Here is a partial answer. Partial, because if honest and verifiable elections are ever to return to the United States it will be because this question will be asked relentlessly by an outraged public."-Ernest Partridge, via Democratic Underground.com.
The Seattle dailies are reporting that legislation ensuring a "verifiable paper trail" for each vote was passed in our recently adjourned legislature. Does anyone know the details? Update: Thanks to Roger Fulton, who provides the details, from the "Bill as Passed Legislature" link, on this page: "Beginning on January 1, 2006, all electronic voting devices must produce a paper record of each vote that may be accepted or rejected by the voter before finalizing his or her vote. This record may not be removed from the polling place, and must be human readable without an interface and machine readable for counting purposes. If the device is programmed to display the ballot in multiple languages, the paper record produced must be printed in the language used by the voter. Rejected records must either be destroyed or marked in order to clearly identify the record as rejected." Sounds too good to be true.

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