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kster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 10:19 PM
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"John Edwards: 'We Need Paper Ballots'"
Edited on Wed May-14-08 10:36 PM by kster


November 15th, 2007
Blogged by Brad from the road...

First Democratic Candidate to Answer Directly on the Issue, in Response to Why Tuesday?'s Candidate Challenge...
Blogged by Brad from the road...

"What we need, is we need paper ballots, so votes can be verified," says John Edwards directly in response to Why Tuesday's video Candidate Challenge. He says a bunch of other good stuff on the topic as well in his brief response...

Edwards is the only Democratic candidate so far (12 candidates from both parties have so far answered the challenge issued by Why Tuesday's Jacob Soboroff) to speak that directly to the issue of paper ballots, and other needed reforms.

On the R side, believe it or not, only Duncan Hunter understands the need for paper ballots. But then again, he also sees imaginary "people that are illegally in the country being rounded up, herded into the polls, we've seen that in California, voting illegally." So we'd have to call his position on election reform a wash.

video at link...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5307

I thought this would be a good day to run this article/video.

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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 10:26 PM
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1. I think this is a very unifying issue. Think also how inspiring! The People taking back their Vote!
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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 10:33 PM
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2. too little , too late
they've had years Npw he wants to say something????????
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kster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 10:35 PM
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4. Never to late for fair elections... nt
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 10:34 PM
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3. It's from November 15th, 2007. n/t
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kster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 10:39 PM
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5. I put the date in, but, its the call for paper ballots
thats most important.
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 11:05 PM
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6. I posted in the wrong spot... I meant to address mitchtv.
Edited on Wed May-14-08 11:06 PM by btmlndfrmr
:hi:

No worries.

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WHAT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 01:22 AM
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7. k
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 01:26 AM
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8. Even rural Indiana went to those damn voting machines without a paper trail.
You have to show your voter ID or drivers license to use them too.
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kster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 01:46 AM
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11. Show your voter ID in order to vote on secret vote counting machines
this government is on top of things, aren't they, they make laws to prevent people from stealing one or two votes at a time, all while secret vote counting machines can steal complete elections. I think they call that ASS BACK WARDS. :)
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GreenTea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 01:32 AM
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9. And audits!
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kster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 01:34 AM
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10. Done in the neighborhood by the people!
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eowyn_of_rohan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 02:14 AM
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12. I am so looking forward to an Edwards/Obama ticket
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 11:29 AM
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13. A former presidential candidate introduced HR 6200,
the Paper Ballot Act of 2006.

http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/h_r_6200_the_paper_ballot_act_of_2006

Edwards is right, of course, about the need for paper ballots. So is Kucinich.

It's too bad more Democrats didn't address this issue a long time ago. It may come back to bite them again in 2008.
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