Fighting for Paper Ballots and Against Evidence-Free Elections.

SoS Candidate Stephens files a weak "Paper Trail" bill.

Georgia Secretary of State Candidate Bill Stephens-(R) files a Voting Machines Paper Trail bill in Senate (Senate Bill 367).  Critics of the unaccountable Diebold Voting Machines state the bill is weak and not universally applied across the state.

S.B. 367: Why Waste Time & Tax Dollars?

by Roxanne Jekot,
co-founder, CountTheVote.Org

As I was reviewing Senator Stephens pre-filed SB367 one thought came to mind - why are we wasting this time and money?

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Legislative Strategies to Return Integrity to Georgia's Elections

and how to fight fake Election "reform".

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.

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The GEORGIA VOTE COUNT PROTECTION ACT

(Ask your legislator to sponsor this bill as is.  The bill contains the strong medicine required to cure our ailing democracy.  The below bill should not be confused with Georgia's H.B. 790, which is a weaker, audit-based derivative of the below bill).

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
THE GEORGIA VOTE COUNT PROTECTION ACT

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the O.C.G.A., relating to primaries and elections generally, so as to provide a short title; to provide a permanent, tangible paper record as the official ballot of votes recorded for each voter; to require that all direct recording electronic voting systems produce such paper evidence as the official ballot; to provide that each elector shall have the opportunity to verify and affirm that the official ballot has accurately recorded his or her intent before casting the ballot for counting; to restore public ballot counting procedures for all voting systems in Georgia; to require that tabulations of said paper ballots are performed at the precinct by manual counting in full view of the general public; to specify that said paper ballots are exclusively recognized as the official ballot of record for purposes of counting, auditing, and recounting the vote and for election challenge proceedings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.    continued...

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When Machines Count, Votes Don't.

A declaration of principles to be implemented in any proposed electoral reforms. 
© 2005, Mark Sawyer

Elections Belong to the People

1. Elections belong to the people, not to election officials, not to software programmers, not to private corporations, not to technicians of any description. The proper role of elections administration is

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Welcome to Georgia - Home of Etch-a-Sketch voting

Voting without paper is like drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch toy. The moment you touch the CAST BALLOT button on an electronic voting machine, the screen is wiped clean, just like when you shake your Etch-a-Sketch. As it turns out, that vote you thought you just cast has about as much permanence and inviolability as your Etch-a-Sketch drawing.

Where did your vote go? Truth is, folks are as likely to find intact ballots inside a Diebold machine as they are of finding intact drawings stored inside an Etch-a-Sketch. That's because voting is supposed to be anonymous. So what's inside a voting machine is the kind of data computer scientists call "unstructured". Pretty much the same kind of stuff that's inside an Etch-a-Sketch.

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Famous Last Words

Electronic voting machine security?
If there were truly something to worry about,
then surely someone is taking care of it.
It can't possibly have anything to do with me!

Wrong.

In fact, ordinary citizens like yourself are the only hope we have of ensuring that every vote is counted accurately in Georgia elections. That's because everywhere else you turn, you find a complete refusal to protect the integrity of our elections, and the sanctity of our right to vote:

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