Protect Your Secret Ballot Meeting

Protect Our Secret Ballot
King County plans to adopt mail ballot tracking. This is more than envelope tracking. It adds a unique barcode to each ballot that is linked to the voter’s id. This eliminates the secret ballot, taking away all voter privacy. Unique barcodes on ballots are unconstitutional, illegal, and bad policy.
Tuesday May 1, [...]

New Report on Vote By Mail, VBM Does Not Really Increase Turnout

http://weber.ucsd.edu/~tkousser/Will%20Vote-by-Mail%20Elections%20Increase%20Turnout.pdf
This report confirms many other reports that suggest that Vote-By Mail will not really increase turnout in the most important races, and now adds that it may actually DECREASE turnout in those races by up to 3%.
It also confirms that Vote-By Mail is being justified as a cost saving device.
The conclusion on pages 33 and [...]

Kill This Bill, HR 811, aka “The Holt Bill”

Lots of people are speaking out against the Holt Bill. From Bev Harris, to Paul Lehto. Safe bet that putting the EAC in control of elections is a very bad idea.
Contact your Senators and urge them not to support Holt!

Why Mail Ballots Are a Bad Idea

Why Mail Ballots Are A Bad Idea by Charles E. Corry, Ph.D.
http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-77.htm 
An intereting read as a primer on absentee ballot problems.

King County, WA, 13 Days of Vote Counting, Seattle Special Election, 2007

Above is a Screen Capture of King County’s own Election News Website, as of April 7th, 2007
http://www.metrokc.gov/elections/news/default.asp
It includes 10 days of headlines that nicely illustrate one of the many problems voting through the United States Postal Service… in Washington State the Ballot only need be postmarked by election day. Therefore the election can drag on [...]

Vote-By Mail Lobbyist Targets Colorado

In this story we see the first appearance of the Vote By Mail Project popping up in Colorado:
http://cbs4denver.com/politics/local_story_094111211.html
(AP) DENVER Unable to vote in November’s election because of long lines at the polls, 62-year-old cancer survivor Penny Baldwin is ready to switch to voting by mail for good.
“I’m at an age where I’m not sure [...]