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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 01:11 AM Original message |
Are Hand Counted Paper Ballots a Realistic Solution for 2008? Doesn't Democracy Deserve a Debate? |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
1. That's too bad |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 04:15 AM Response to Original message |
2. I don't actually trust myself to do complex, boring routine operations for hours on end |
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tbyg52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 08:02 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. *Complex* boring routines, absolutely not |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 09:04 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. HERES A LINK... |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 10:04 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. NH is irrelevant. My county alone has vastly more voters and ballot complexity n/t |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 10:26 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Robo-red herring response we've seen before |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 05:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. I just said it was irrelevant to me |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 08:55 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. Oh. So it's irrelevant to YOU. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 11:44 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Well, Andy Stephenson actually worked as poll worker in King County |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 12:00 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. This thread didn't start arguing HCPB for Washington. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 12:14 AM Response to Reply #31 |
38. How they manage to do it is by being small and not having all that much to do |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:34 AM Response to Reply #14 |
102. Give the billions of dollars we now give to BUSHITE corporations to 'count' our votes |
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Bill Bored (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 02:47 PM Response to Reply #9 |
76. Ballot Complexity = Number of Contests on the Ballot. That's important. nt |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 05:02 PM Response to Reply #76 |
80. I asked if that's what was meant, and didn't receive a response. |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 10:54 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. somewhere around here there is an opportunity |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 05:53 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. All I know is that we can't get enough poll workers as it is |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 06:29 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I won't defend the spammers |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 07:59 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Dave Berman’s HCPB Forecast Tool |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 08:05 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. well? n/t |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 12:03 AM Response to Reply #20 |
33. With King County's numbers I get $713,066.67 |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 07:14 AM Response to Reply #33 |
52. thanks for this |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 11:46 PM Response to Reply #18 |
30. Very good questions. Election integrity activists in King County, however-- |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 08:57 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. We agree! |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 12:12 AM Response to Reply #24 |
37. And doing another hand count is not the way to go |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 10:48 AM Response to Reply #17 |
57. People volunteer for SPECIFIC projects for SPECIFIC reasons, so WHY |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 11:11 AM Response to Reply #57 |
58. Best post of the entire thread. |
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demodonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 10:06 AM Response to Reply #57 |
66. I'm a pollworker myself since before 1992, and I have stayed after 2004 in because... |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 10:29 AM Response to Reply #66 |
70. You don't "want to trust to "draftees"" to count ballots. |
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demodonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 10:47 AM Response to Reply #70 |
73. Yes. |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 10:59 AM Response to Reply #73 |
74. I'm a risk-based audit believing guy myself. |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 05:00 PM Response to Reply #73 |
79. Re: Your "double-count" comment. |
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Bill Bored (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 03:07 PM Response to Reply #57 |
77. Why not bring back the draft whie you're at it! |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 05:14 PM Response to Reply #77 |
82. While LS made a large point about conscription, it wasn't his only point. |
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Bill Bored (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 08:23 PM Response to Reply #82 |
83. "How many elections were canceled for the lack of pollworkers?" |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 09:55 PM Response to Reply #83 |
84. I'm not reading that as a "not enough auditors" story. |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-12-08 09:57 AM Response to Reply #83 |
93. BTW, Bill. Forget shortages of pollworkers. How about shortages of working equipment and ballots??? |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-12-08 08:03 AM Response to Reply #82 |
91. I think it's a telling point |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-12-08 09:47 AM Response to Reply #91 |
92. It IS time to reboot the entire analysis. |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-12-08 03:27 PM Response to Reply #92 |
95. broadly, I take your points |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-13-08 12:16 AM Response to Reply #95 |
99. I don't believe LS diminishes the importance of those tasks. |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-13-08 05:52 AM Response to Reply #99 |
100. maybe I'm just prosaic |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-12-08 01:35 AM Response to Reply #57 |
87. If there are not enough volunteers that show up at the polling place |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 12:37 PM Response to Reply #57 |
103. Landshark's point about MOTIVATION is important, and should not be lost. |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 03:38 PM Response to Reply #103 |
105. this is wildly ahistorical |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:26 PM Response to Reply #105 |
106. You're no fun. |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 02:41 AM Response to Reply #103 |
107. DRE'S Touchscreen Screen voting, no paper, no possible way to audit |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 08:43 AM Response to Reply #107 |
108. Actually, they avoid you like the plague. |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 12:07 PM Response to Reply #108 |
110. Chain of custody? Are the ballots going somewhere? |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 08:59 PM Response to Reply #110 |
112. I'm planning nothing. |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 11:56 AM Response to Reply #107 |
109. I am amazed at the number of questions that advocates of RIGHTWING BUSHITE-controlled |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 04:04 PM Response to Reply #109 |
111. "advocates" like Kim Alexander?! |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 09:03 PM Response to Reply #109 |
113. You'll have to forgive me not reading your entire expulsion. |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 11:03 PM Response to Reply #113 |
114. The audits that you advocate will they be done in the hood |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 11:13 PM Response to Reply #114 |
115. Push for audits in your hood and let us know. |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-15-08 11:54 PM Response to Reply #115 |
116. What do you suggest, if I push for audits in my hood |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 12:26 AM Response to Reply #116 |
117. As an ideal? If a precinct's selected... |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:08 AM Response to Reply #117 |
119. You said push for audits in your precinct (hood), now you say, if I acheive that goal |
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Ellipsis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 12:30 AM Response to Reply #116 |
118. I believe he is simply encouraging you to get involved at the grass-roots level |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 02:41 AM Response to Reply #118 |
120. At the same time he continues to encourage his audit |
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Ellipsis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 10:51 AM Response to Reply #120 |
121. You're wrong and it strikes me you're being dishonest. He is not redundant. There's no misdirection. |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 11:07 PM Response to Reply #121 |
122. When you are not defending someone else, you give great advice |
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Ellipsis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 08:44 AM Response to Reply #122 |
123. Not defending anyone... simple pointing out untruths and character assaination to advance my point. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 10:08 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. And with 40 candidates and bond issues on each ballot? |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 10:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
101. Chemicals are not Republicans. The CEOs of the election theft industry are. |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 06:27 AM Response to Original message |
3. We need to get the voting machines out of the equation. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 10:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Other countries don't have elections for candidates, just parties |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
11. Count Votes by hand?!?!?!? |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 04:34 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I demand a procedure be put in place |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 05:50 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. It took Washington state 3 weeks to recount the 2004 gubernatorial race |
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diva77 (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 04:54 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. And let's not forget that Rove's AG tool threatened to put people in jail if they handcounted |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 08:18 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. And the USSC stopped the people from hand counting |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 05:49 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Trusting machines is idiotic |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 07:47 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Do you hand count the ballots when you do the audit? nt |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 09:02 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. That's a reasonable question. |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 09:47 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Specified as "hand count" that means the pocedure to "hand count" is already |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 12:05 AM Response to Reply #19 |
34. Unfortunately, we don't require audits |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 12:28 AM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Why are you able to hand count a % of the ballots accurately for your audit |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 01:09 AM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Because counting 200 ballots is easier to do accurately than counting 1.2 million. |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 10:42 AM Response to Reply #41 |
56. You're not being logical. |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-12-08 02:17 AM Response to Reply #56 |
88. You have 18 post in my thread and you call me a SPAMMER |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-12-08 07:52 AM Response to Reply #88 |
90. I didn't accuse you of disrupting your own threads. |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-12-08 12:41 PM Response to Reply #90 |
94. You do know when you post it puts the thread back on top |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-12-08 09:37 PM Response to Reply #94 |
96. And the majority opinion of you... |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-12-08 10:17 PM Response to Reply #96 |
97. Hand Count/ Audit the optiscan Paper Ballots in the neighborhood |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-12-08 11:05 PM Response to Reply #97 |
98. Actually, it was a surprisingly good question you asked of Bill. |
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diva77 (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 11:22 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. having been a pollworker, I can see how easy it would be to rig an audit |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 11:46 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. I'm not following... |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 12:02 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Here ya go Wilms, Sort-n-Stack Method of Hand Counting Ballots Submitted by Rady Ananda |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 12:11 AM Response to Reply #32 |
36. OK, so where's the gubernatorial contest, the senate and house races-- |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 12:49 AM Response to Reply #36 |
40. Your able to accurately hand count 5% of our ballots for your audit |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 01:12 AM Response to Reply #40 |
42. Why not just try singing all the verses to A Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall? |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 02:43 AM Response to Reply #42 |
44. Both are doable, What are you getting at? nt |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 03:47 AM Response to Reply #44 |
45. Are you delusional, or what? |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 03:58 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Hand Counted Paper Ballots in the neighborhood, IS NOT AN OPTION |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 04:06 AM Response to Reply #46 |
47. Tell that to the all mail in folks in Oregon sometime. |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 04:16 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. The optical scan machines are in our neighborhoods to confiscate our ballots |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 04:21 AM Response to Reply #48 |
49. So what? All your yammering has had exactly zero effect on Oregon's law n/t |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 04:27 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. You say "So what" need I say more? |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 05:54 AM Response to Reply #50 |
51. You might say what you have actually accomplished in the real world for election integrity |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 10:34 AM Response to Reply #50 |
55. Did I already point out that your form of advocacy is one of the worst things for the HCPB effort |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-12-08 03:05 AM Response to Reply #45 |
89. YOUR DELUSIONAL!! First you say |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 12:08 AM Response to Reply #27 |
35. I still have to read the sort and stack book |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 01:28 AM Response to Reply #35 |
43. This will get you started heres a short video on sort and stack |
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Bill Bored (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 03:41 PM Response to Reply #11 |
78. What about jurisdictions that don't have paper? nt |
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Fly by night (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 07:43 AM Response to Original message |
53. Kster, other than posting here incessantly on HCPB, what have you done to accomplish that goal? |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 07:45 AM Response to Reply #53 |
54. n/t |
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diva77 (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 08:38 PM Response to Reply #53 |
59. Kster has posted a lot of great articles that I otherwise would never have encountered |
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demodonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 09:33 PM Response to Reply #59 |
61. Google is your friend, and doesn't whine about HCPBs all the time. nt |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 10:37 AM Response to Reply #59 |
72. Forget google. All you have to do is lurk OpEd News and BBV. |
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demodonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-10-08 09:32 PM Response to Reply #53 |
60. I agree, and remember when this forum was really productive, with many great voices being heard. |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 01:36 AM Response to Reply #60 |
62. Take any eight grader to Radio Shack and S/He could build a ballot counting machine |
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Yellow Horse (462 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 09:49 AM Response to Reply #62 |
65. Um, YOU are the 800 pound gorillla in this room, and it's driving everybody else out. |
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JEQuidam (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 06:00 AM Response to Original message |
63. Aren't computerized voting machines OK as long as... |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 08:44 AM Response to Reply #63 |
64. No they are nothing more than lock boxes |
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Fly by night (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 10:07 AM Response to Reply #63 |
67. Yes. |
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Fly by night (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 10:24 AM Response to Reply #67 |
69. To elaborate... |
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Bill Bored (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 10:09 PM Response to Reply #69 |
85. Good news about TN Fly! I had no idea you were so close to getting a law passed. |
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demodonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 10:20 AM Response to Reply #63 |
68. A voter-marked paper ballot with machine count backed up by statistically significant audit is fine. |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 10:33 AM Response to Reply #68 |
71. Of course you can manipulate a HCPB election. |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 01:12 PM Response to Reply #68 |
75. Yes this can be done in the neighborhood at each polling place, RIGHT? |
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Bill Bored (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-11-08 05:10 PM Response to Reply #63 |
81. No one is doing a proper audit of paper ballots or records....yet. |
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kster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-12-08 01:04 AM Response to Reply #81 |
86. Some here speak of an audit, can this audit/hand count |
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eomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-14-08 01:05 PM Response to Reply #63 |
104. Yes, but you need to be sure the audit is provided for in state law. |
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