Reply to "Don't let the Democrats steal the 2008 election."

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Originally posted by Southern Patriot:

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Originally posted by EdEKit:

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Originally posted by Southern Patriot:

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Originally posted by EdEKit:
Democrats, Republicans, Political Machines, Election fraud. oh my. IT IS ILLEGAL TO TAMPER WITH BALLOTS OR ELECTIONS. It is a Crime. US Attorney in New Mexico was STOPPED from investigating possible tampering. The Secretary of State In OHIO refused to turn election records over to investigators. AND GOT AWAY WITH IT.

The election process needs on additional step. Random Sample audits of the count compared with the ballots cast. THAT REQUIRES A TAMPER PROOF BALLOT. THAT MEANS PAPER, MARKED IN INK.

I will totally agree with your second premise. A ballot should ALWAYS be paper and ink. It's a whole lot harder to screw around with them. I don't trust anything in voting that doesn't leave a paper trail.

That's an interesting observation. Here is one way in which paper ballots, in this case MAIL in paper ballots may have been misused http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/46569.html?1174063421
It is in my home territory, so I was interested. The story, if it made mainstream got past me.
This article should be of interest to Americans interested in legal and fair elections. http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/46817.html?1174485828

I don't believe in "mail in" ballots either. The only people who whould be able to use mail in ballots are military members who are deployed out of their normal home voting area.

How about Private contractors? Or citizens on duty with corporations. Or people traveling to obtain medical services. Or people who maintain a residence in Alabama and Puerto Rico? How about foreign Correspondents for the New York Times? HOW ABOUT ME, I WAS A CROSS COUNTRY TRUCK DRIVER. I WAS IN MY H9OME 15 DAYS A YEAR. THE REST OF THE TIME I WAS PUTTING FOOD ON THE TABLE FOR THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT, OR DELIVERING NEW TOILETS TO CALIFORNIA. YOU DON'T THINK I SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO VOTE IN THE ROUGHLY 27 ELECTIONS THAT CAME AROUND DURING THAT TIME?


Mail in Ballots are invariably Paper. They are secure, and designed to be secret. If they have a downside it is the reduction in the number of "traditional" polling places.