echoing nentwined.

[kuangning]

In California, you have the legal right to use a paper ballot if you are concerned about the reliability of electronic voting machines.

Given the enormous security vulnerabilities with electronic voting machines, I'm asking everyone to vote on paper to ensure a verifiable record exists of your vote. Don't let anyone manipulate your vote after you cast it!

Pass this message on in your journal.

(Pollworkers in Santa Clara County are being instructed not to mention this to voters, and to provide paper ballots only upon specific request.)

Source here.

... that makes me curious about how many other places either aren't offering the option or are instructing people not to let it be known that the option's there. And, of course, I'm advocating that people please use the paper option if it's at all available to you. A vote that can't be tracked is a vote that wasn't cast, in worst-case scenarios. The idea of electronic voting is a neat one, and we'll get there someday, but the implementation we currently have is frighteningly flawed. Ask for paper; it's safer.

Comments

[salinn.livejournal.com]

My aunt/uncle and cousins live in Santa Clara county. Good thought.

[salinn.livejournal.com]

Then again - only half their family will be voting Democrat...

[kuangning]

Tell them anyway. A vote is still a vote, and while I want Kerry to win, I want him to win properly. Victory's not the same if you had to cheat to get it -- it's not a real victory then.

[sarahsmiles.livejournal.com]

I'm scared. And I won't stop being scared until this is over... well, I may end up more scared... depending on the outcome.

[zorbathut.livejournal.com]

This is one of the reasons I'm voting by mail. :P

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

I live in Santa Clara County and I'm voting absentee, via paper and mail. Or, if I don't mail it early enough, I can still drop it off at any polling place on election day. I've been encouraging as many people as I can to do the same.