Reply #4: Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections-----> www.safevote.org [View All]

[seafan]

http://www.safevote.org/

I'm sure you know of this site, but for the benefit of everyone, I'll list it here. There is a wealth of information there.

The attorney and a representative of this Sarasota organization were being interviewed on the Jim DeFede show this morning (local Miami) on 940 WINZ. They are doing some very important trail blazing in Florida, IMHO.

Keep fighting for stand-alone pen and paper ballots, hand counted at every precinct under direct public observation, and telephoned in to the Secretary of State's office We need to ditch all the machines, including optical scanners. (These scanners send numbers to a central vote tabulator, which is also very vulnerable to manipulation, unfortunately.)


Edited to add:

One thing the attorney from SAFE mentioned this morning is that Sarasota County is a "charter county", meaning that the voters DO have a say in what type of ballot they will use, and it is upheld legally. Apparently, not all counties are "charter counties." Need some additional info on just which counties of Florida's 67 fall into this category. (How much do we want to bet that Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Duval do NOT??)