Candidate Challenge: Joe Biden

[kster]

We challenged all presidential candidates to send us a video with their plans for election reform... but waiting around for responses is boring. Jacob Soboroff ran into U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware) at a coffee shop in Washington, D.C. and brought the Why Tuesday? Candidate Challenge to him. Who's next?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDfqqKurwv8&eurl=http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5136


Sounds similar to this idea...



Sheila Parks

The call to action now is: HCPB for all federal races in the 2008 elections. This would mean hand counting just 1-3 races (the president and vice president; your U.S. senator if s/he is up for re-election; your U.S. Representative). Yes, we would need two ballots, one for these races and one for all other contests and questions on the ballots. Canada already uses an HCPB system for its federal races. Various states and municipalities already have protocols for HCPB, and one has been presented in this paper. These could easily be adapted from one jurisdiction to another. Elections are governed by state rather than federal statutes (HAVA notwithstanding). According to electionline.org, a website that provides an ongoing analysis of election reform, “Each state strikes a unique balance in allocating responsibility for elections between state and local governments. A survey of all 50 states reveals a wide spectrum of power-sharing arrangements.” There is a “Snapshot of the States” on pp. 11-14 of the Election Reform Briefing. When you begin this work, call your local Secretary of State and get the exact rules for your state.


It is time to make electronic voting machines a NIMBY (not in my back yard and not in anyone else’s back yard either) issue. To begin a movement for HCPB, ordinary citizens, registered voters, must begin organizing door-to-door with their neighbors to petition their local election officers and demand HCPB in their city or town. Although organizing could also proceed on a state level, going municipality by municipality is a good way to start, depending on your state’s laws.


http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/specials/article.2006-04-10.1693298872

[mod mom]

1. Nice to see my friend Sheila's article posted here.

HCPB! and as my signature line says: