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[pearwaldorf]

About a third of the votes, 36 million, will be tabulated completely inside the new paperless, direct-recording-electronic (DRE) voting systems, on which you vote directly on a touch-screen. Unlike receipted transactions at the neighborhood ATM, however, you get no paper record of your vote.
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The United States therefore faces the likelihood that about three out of ten of the votes in the national election this November will be unverifiable, unauditable and unrecountable.

Absentee ballots, my friends. Absentee ballots. Personally, I'd make a copy of it with a signed statement that says that is indeed your ballot, just to be sure. I'll probably be out at the local polling booths with affadavits for people to sign affirming that they did indeed vote for whoever they filled in on the ballot.

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[hammycd.livejournal.com]

I'll probably be out at the local polling booths with affadavits for people to sign affirming that they did indeed vote for whoever they filled in on the ballot.

Oooh, that's a good idea. How do you go about doing that?

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

I haven't a clue. But here's a paragraph from the Nation article:

Citizens can stay current on election developments via several websites: electionline.org, a reliable and up-to-date source; VerifiedVoting.org, Dill's group; notablesoftware.com, Mercuri's site; blackboxvoting.org, Bev Harris's site; countthevote.org, the site of the Georgia group led by Jekot; and these will key into many others. For a steady flow of news stories on this subject (and a few others) from around the country, get on the e-mail list of resist@best.com. Official information concerning each state is available online at each state's website for its secretary of state.