VOTING ALERT!!
Oct. 19th, 2004 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athelindCalifornia Pollworkers Told to Withhold Information from 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!
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!
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Date: 2004-10-19 03:17 pm (UTC)For some reason I this keeps getting bogged down in partisanship, and I don't know why. All we want is a way to go back and check on things if there was some sort of problem, no matter what the source.
Personally, I'm a fan of a human readable printout from the voting station to go along with the live data, that can be optically scanned should the need arise. So that there is a paper backup should there be some sort of failure. There is a paper trail for that bag of groceries you bought, why not for your vote?
Thoroughness is not paranoia.