BBV: Paper ballots nationwide imminent -- watch this space [View All]

[BevHarris]

Something is going to happen tomorrow.

Also, as you probably know, some of the Diebold memos are now parked on a congressional Web site, and there is more afoot. HR 2239 is nice, and we need to pass it, but do not let up:

When we get the paper ballots, we need these two things in short order:

1) An immediate interim solution for the primaries that gives us manual counts of the voter-verified paper ballots. There are efficient and cheap ways to do this. And by the way, Democracy is worth it. The machines are not ready for prime time -- the Optical Scan machines also MUST be hand-audited, because we have documented case after case where these things are flipping elections.

2) A long term solution mandating robust auditing (not teensy spot checks) comparing voter-verified paper against machine tally, if we use machines at all. This must be done in every polling place, at the polling place, in every election, and not just for recounts or "suspicious" circumstances.

Watch. You'll see. Then let's get up to speed on the reasons we cannot waiver on #1 and #2 above.

Bev Harris
http://www.blackboxvoting.org