A Modest Proposal

Interesting video. Ohio’s Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, has overseen an investigation of Ohio’s electronic voting system to assure that votes are counted accurately and that the system is secure from tampering.

Her conclusion: “There is cause for great concern.”

You have to follow this stuff on the internet, as it is just not covered by the media. Two Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) election officials are in jail for interfering in that state’s recount. 56 of 88 counties have illegally destroyed their election ballots and records, in direct defiance of a federal judge. There’s widespread suspicion that Ohio was stolen, that Bush once again occupies the White House by fraud.

Jennifer Brunner trounced former Secretary of State Ken Blackwell at the polls, and promised to clean up Ohio’s elections.

Ohio witnessed a 6.7% flip in exit polls versus counted vote. The exits say Kerry won. There’s widespread evidence of multiple means of fraud, from voter list purges to illegal lock downs of election headquarters (Cincinnati) to shorting black voters of voting machines to illegal caging. Then there were the machines themselves – seems anyone with a wi-fi could hack them.

Her recommendation: Paper ballots with central point optical scanning. The State of Ohio would take over training of election personnel, and would be in charge of keeping machines secure and training state employees to use them. This would eliminate the former system where state employees, corporate reps and independent contractors all had access to the machines at various times leading up to the election. Security was nonexistent.

She also recommends a two week election period where polling places are open seven days a week, to replace this crazy system where we all try to squeeze into the school cafeteria on the first Tuesday in November. That is long overdue.

Interesting video. It will be an interesting battle in Ohio to see if she can push her reforms through the legislature.