Voting fraud; how to prevent it
Ok, setting partisanship aside does anyone disagree that the level of spoiled ballots usually on the negative for older people and minorities is a bad thing?
These are people who are being disenfranshized.
Voting machines that leave no evidence of use; frankly, I'ld like to receive a receipt since voting is in my opinion as important as getting cash out of my atm (more so but that was the
best analogy I could think of at the moment).
Creating a receipt system of some sort in my opinion would be one of the best ways to ensure against desenfranchisment and problems from having to recount later. Much like the disputes now ongong and in the past for example, the ones in texas where republicans are trying to get a hand recount and the same when kerry tried the same during ohio.
Accountability is important. It's sort of like me, I sent in my mail in ballot but I really don't
know if it arrived; my brother who had asked for a mail in ballot, never received his ballot, he went to the polling station and for some reason or other they made him
sign/fill out a provisional ballot.
I want to know that my vote went in and that no 'funny stuff occurred" otherwise with the tight races being run nowadays I'm not sure we can always trust the system to be accurate.
Anyone have any suggestions for improving the system?
Think there are sites out there pushing accountability and a 'paper trail,' anyways this is an important topic.
Not sure how many of those are bipartisan which I think they should be; several of my friends to my great regret did vote
for the 'other side' via mail in ballots.
bye, Mercedes
Always amazed at the amount of typos that can pop up when expressing a thought