Defenders Of Democracy

Americans Deserve Accountable Elections. 
Understand the Terminology and Strategy to Return Integrity to Georgia's Elections.

Understand that when you say "Paper Ballot", the "Ballot" is defined in the Georgia Election Code and your Ballot:
 is Evidence
 has value
 under all existing laws, must be counted.

When a person says "paper receipt", "paper record", or “paper trail”, that person is using a word not defined in the election code and thus, "paper receipts", "paper record", and “paper trails” need not be counted.
"Paper Receipts", "Paper Records", and “Paper Trails”:
 are NOT Evidence
 have NO value
 normally, will NEVER be counted.

"Paper Receipt", "Paper Record", and “Paper Trail” are terms created by the opponents of clean and transparent elections.  When you use the language of your opponent, you let your opponent control the struggle. Our opponents want us to struggle for "paper receipts" or “paper trails” that are never counted, that are not defined in existing law, and that no-one can access due to ongoing non-compliance of the Open-Records laws by the Secretary of State's Office.

Another legal hurdle to be overcome is the perversion of the definition of the word “ballot”.  Current law in Georgia defines the “Ballot Image” that appears on the voting machine to be the “official ballot”.  This perverse definition makes writing new laws to bring accountability and transparency back to Georgia extremely difficult.  The easiest resolution of this problem is to return the definition of a ballot to a “paper ballot”, as in the Original Vote Count Protection Act (OVCPA).

Timing is everything.  Under the mindset of the current Secretary of State’s Office, bills like Georgia’s Senate Bill (SB) 222 that specify that a “paper record” shall be produced, but do not specify that the paper record be produced in front of the voter, will result in a shock for citizens dedicated to accountability and transparency.  A perverse, yet likely implementation of SB 222 by the Secretary of State’s Office would produce the “paper record” after the election is completed  and not in front of the voter, thus rendering the “paper record” meaningless.  

If Georgia’s Senate Bill (SB) 222 or some other "paper receipt / record / trail" bill passes, eventually people will realize that they've been tricked again, and once again we'll be struggling for paper ballots, the core component of the Original Vote Count Protection Act.

The struggle for accountable elections is tough enough as it is.  Our efforts in this struggle must not be on Diebold's terms.  We can win back accountable, transparent elections on our terms, defined by morality and accountability.  

Read the bill that embodies our ideals, the Original Vote Count Protection Act on this website.   With your help, this bill can be passed. Together, United, We Are Defenders of Democracy.