Pierce County Sacrifices Polling Places for Forced Vote By Mail Absentee Voting

If you have some time, and oppose VBM like I do, drop a letter to the editor to your local paper about Vote-by Mail. And if you need someplace to start, start with this:
Pierce County whacks polls
Low turnout forces closure of 40 percent of voting places, auditor says
SEAN COCKERHAM; The News Tribune
Published: July 28th, 2007 [...]

Barack Obama Targets Vote Banking through Vote By Mail in California

Not only did Barack Obama and John Kerry co-sponsor the Ron Wyden vote-by mail scheme in 2007, but now Barack Obama has a PAC helping him raise money in California. This PAC, while apparently getting Barack around some pesky fundraising limit laws, will also be targeting California’s Vote-by Mail system in order to “bank [...]

Hand Counted Paper Ballots for 2008?

This article examines the nature of a precinct hand counted paper ballot systems:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00288.htm
One of the better break-downs of the HCBP (hand-counted paper ballot) system that I have seen to date.

Let’s all vote by mail, just like…Texas

I’ve been arguing with Oregonians lately over on Blackboxvoting.org, who love their vote by mail system. Well, I’m a King County, WA voter and I’d say as a voting integrity activist that I fear Vote-by Mail will produce problems like this overtime:
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/mail_78573___article.html/ballot_county.html
Caught in the Act
Last month, five Starr and Hidalgo county residents were indicted of [...]

Postmaster General Adresses National Association of Secretaries of State

Interesting press release today from the United State’s Postal Service, titled, “Postmaster General Discusses ’Vote By Mail’ at Conference”:
Portland, OR — Mail can play an important role in helping citizens chose their elected officials and the U.S. Postal Service has resources officials need to create Vote by Mail programs.
Those were the two main points shared [...]

Dave Ross - Kiro Radio Monday Morning

I was on Kiro 710 yesterday talking about Vote-By Mail in King County, the link is here for the archived episode:
http://sea.bonnint.net/0716davehour2.mp3
I’m on about the last 10 minutes of the second hour, linked above.
Here’s my Cliff Notes for King County and Washington listeners:
1. Why Vote By Mail is a bad idea:
- It gets rid of [...]

Montana’s Secret Ballot Increasingly Endangered Species

It appears that as with Idaho, Montana’s Secret Ballot is under assault by the Vote-By Mail enthusiasts. Close the polls. Save money. It’s convenient. Voter’s love the convenience of absentee ballots. It’s a paper ballot. The mantra is infectious.
Will your state succumb? Will your political representatives at the council level fight for the preservation of [...]

Colorado Editorial: Ripe for Fraud

It seems to me that there’s a growing concern about this here plan to push vote by mail on the national front. I hear the drums. The drums of the backlash against vote by mail schemes is growing every day.
Anway, here’s a new editorial, ahem… opposed to vote-by mail by the Pueblo Chieftain:
City Clerk Gina [...]

The Seattle Weekly on I-25

After talking to the press, you really never know what is going to come out in the story. So after talking with Seattle Weekly reporter, Sean Ludwig, a few days back, I’d been watching for the story to come out on I-25. Well it finally did, and was totally spot on. In fact, the title [...]

Diebold Dazzles (King County) Democrats

Zappinni has written lately on Washblog about King County’s reckless plan to switch to highspeed vote tabulation systems, ballot tracking, using all the bells and whistles of Diebold’s Vote-by Mail solution and VoteHere’s ballot tracking software. Problem is, King County is one of the largest county’s in the country and using it as Diebold’s “test [...]