VIDEO: Kucinich on E-Voting Machines:

[helderheid]

http://blip.tv/file/82767

[april]

1. Oh so good....thanks Dennis K

[helderheid]

2. he rocks

[OzarkDem]

5. Yes he does

Its always good to know he's there. He was my congressman for many years. He is always someone who is willing to listen and can be counted on to do the right thing. Always.

[helderheid]

3. more

On September 27, Congressman Kucinich, with 19 cosponsors, introduced H.R. 6200, the Paper Ballot Act of 2006.

The bill would "amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to conduct Presidential elections using paper ballots and to count those ballots by hand." It was referred to the Committee on House Administration and the Committee on Government Reform.
Specifically, the bill would amend Sec. 301(a) by adding new rules for presidential elections:
"(A) The State shall conduct the election using only paper ballots.
"(B) The State shall ensure that the number of ballots cast at a precinct or equivalent location which are placed inside a single box or similar container does not exceed 500.
"(C) The ballots cast at a precinct or equivalent location shall be counted by hand by election officials at the precinct, and a representative of each political party with a candidate on the ballot, as well as any interested member of the public, may observe the officials as they count the ballots."
In addition, H.R. 6200 would make election day a holiday, by moving the observation of Washington's birthday to election day during presidential election years.

[OzarkDem]

4. Reminds me of what we used to do in LWV

Years ago I was active in the League of Women Voters. On election night, we would volunteer to assist the news media by sending our members to large key precincts at closing time.

We would wait while the poll workers tabulated the total votes for their precinct, get the results and phone them into a toll free number for the news media where they gathered the info and used it to forecast the election results.

Those were in the days of the old fashioned lever voting machines. Why can't we do something similar again as a backup to detect voting problems, using independent observers in each precinct to record the totals? The whole voting system has gotten out of whack since everyone began using some form of "centralized tabulation" for counting votes, IMHO.

[helderheid]

6. those centralized tabulation machines are a major problem

[sarahlee]

7. Thanks for posting this

Had not seen it.

[eridani]

8. Transcript here--

http://www.kucinich.us/messages/dk2006100601.php