2:01 AM -:- Posted by Allen    

Boycott Electonic Voting

I was going to write a detailed article illustrating how to do this in California, assessing the specifics and how to comply with the legal requirements and procedures. But I decided that it isn't that hard to figure out, and that writing specific instructions for a single state still leaves the people in the other 49 having to work it out for themselves.

Maybe I'll get into the specifics on the LawfulGov.org site. If I do, I'll post a notice here. But for now....

What to do

1. Learn the rules for absentee voting, available from yout county voter registrar, often right there on their website.

2. Request and timely file an absentee ballot according to the local procedures and requirements. This may include first planning a trip if necessary to be out of town on election day so that you can honestly file the request, if that's a condition. And then make damn sure you actually do go out of town for the day, so you don't get into trouble for illegally abusing the absentee-ballot option.

Generally....

--Absentee ballots are paper.

--Absentee ballots have to be counted by hand.

--Absentee ballots have to be preserved for the record and physically re-counted if there's a challenge.

Gee! Absentee ballots give us everything everybody's been saying we are going to lose because of electronic voting.

Simple, eh?