Why I am for HCPB (hand counted paper ballots)

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SHEILA PARKS; 100% HAND COUNT VS RANDOM AUDIT

 

 

 

 

 

Why I am for HCPB (hand counted paper ballots)

OpEdNews - USA

 

- The audit would have to be 100% = and then, the machines and the

HCPB would be audits for each other. And then why bother with the

machines? ...

 

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April 5, 2006

 

Why I am for HCPB (hand counted paper ballots

 

By Sheila Parks, Boston voting activist

 

Here are some of my problems with " mandatory random audits " of op

scans (the Holt Bill) and why I am for hand counted paper ballots (HCPB):

 

- The audit would have to be 100% = and then, the machines and the

HCPB would be audits for each other. And then why bother with the

machines? They cost us so much money. They build the coffers of the

Republicans. They are rigged. What is there good about them? Unless

there was a 100% hand count, I would be opposed. And then we come full

circle, again, why bother with the machines? To placate? I am not

interested in placating these psychopathic, immoral, deranged

criminals that are running and ruining this country and our beautiful

planet Earth.

 

- I have a doctorate degree and I have been working against the

e-voting machines for four years now at least, and I do not understand

the percentages and how that will work. And if I don't, I don't

thinkfeel any ordinary citizen, registered voter will either. Nor will

the people who run the elections. And unless we send mathematicians

and statisticians around the country explaining to everyone on

election night how to do these audits - or even before election night

- I don't see how they will get done in the first place. My most

important point here being that I believe it is crucial that every

plain Jane and plain John on the street understand perfectly, easily

and effortlessly exactly what our voting process is. I don't think

that is possible with the mandatory random audits, as I have tried to

elaborate on above.

 

- Who will make sure they are random?

 

- How will random be defined?

 

- Since the elections are rigged on purpose, why would these audits be

done? Certainly not because they are the law.

 

- I have had it explained to me, but I cannot duplicate it here, that

rigging can get around any percentage of audits

 

- I totally trust what some election reform statisticians and

mathematicians have said about the machines. And other computer

techies I know who are not political activists have also spoken to me

about the machines and the rigging. I think the audits give some

semblance of credibility to the machines and I am totally opposed to

that for every reason.

 

- The Harri Hursti and Hugh Thompson hacks put the op scans with

audits to rest for me, in a very final way.(Not that I was not at that

point anyhow; but they were the computer scientist experts and they

hacked the machines and then said what they said. I do not understand

what others think about what Hursti has said and still opt for these

audits. This is a real question

 

- I do think they will give a false sense of security and even worse.

Let's just say Holt gets out of committee. And they rig the elections

and they do the audits in some rigged way and then WE complain, of

course. And then they say - look at that, we give them what they want

and they still are not happy. What poor losers they really are. What

do we do then? Because that is the exact scenario I envision.

 

- The machines have at least two purposes as I see it: to rig the

elections and to make the companies billions of dollars. Do you think

they will give that up, still using the machines?

 

- Nothing I have read anywhere makes me thinkfeel there would be or

could be an honest random audit that would really work

 

- I fear the Supreme Court will intervene again and name a person who

was not elected to office to be the president

 

- I am a great believer in asking for what I want. I have learned both

spiritually and emotionally, that is the only way I am going to get

it. Therefore, I am asking for HCPB

 

- Finally, I really don't understand how these audits are going in the

right direction.For me, it presupposes that we are working within an

honest system with honest people who really want to make sure our

elections are honest. When we start out with something that is rigged

- the machines - and on purpose - how could the audits possibly be

done in any good way?

 

Sheila Parks is a voting activist in Boston. She can be reached at

Sheila.Parks.

 

 

 

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