VOTING ALERT!!

[athelind]

California Pollworkers Told to Withhold Information from Voters

Attention, California Voters!

By mandate of the California Secretary of State, you have the legal right to request a paper ballot if you are concerned about the reliability of electronic voting machines. They must provide these ballots.

However, pollworkers in Santa Clara County -- that's San Jose, and the place where a goodly number of you out there in LJ land live -- are being unstructed specifically not to mention this to voters, and to provide paper ballots only upon specific request.

The rights you save could be your own!

Comments

[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with electronic voting? Seems like a great idea to me. Saves TONS of money on paper printing costs and its instantaneous.

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

What I love is that the people screaming the most against electronic voting are those of us who make a living with computers, it's not a luddite response like some try to spin.

[kolchis.livejournal.com]

Especially when the owner of the Diebold Company, who makes voting machines, has declared he's going to 'deliver Ohio for Bush'.

The sheer amount of skullduggery these people will stoop to to retain power is amazing...

[archteryx.livejournal.com]

And that is exactly why I'm working as an Election Protection volunteer. Poll workers told not to tell voters what they have a right to know? We hand out Voter's Bill of Rights that explain just what they are, and let the voters take it from there.

The organization is www.electionprotectionvolunteer.org.

-- ArchTeryx