BBV: Activists in Austin TX buy billboard ads. Photos please...

[Bushfire]

When you cast your ballot, how would you like to receive a paper receipt saying who you voted for? That's what one group of Austin activists is trying to do.

That group has put a half dozen billboards around Austin. It says, "New electronic voting machines are easy to hack, demand a paper trail for the presidential election."

That may be easier said than done.

The group says that voters should receive a receipt from the voting machine that says who they voted for.

That receipt can go into a ballot box in the event of a recount. They believe electronic voting machines can be retrofitted with printers to make it cost-effective.

more...

http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=1923203&nav=0s3dNiIs

has any Austin DUers seen these yet? could you post a photo?

[Gildor Inglorion]

1. How hard could it be? The gasoline pump

at my neighborhood service station produces a paper receipt when I pay by credit card. I've never known it to make a mistake. But somehow a voting machine can't do the same thing?

[gristy]

2. That's called a ballot.

Not a receipt. You take a receipt home with you. No wonder everyone is so damn confused. I hope they get a clue before they start painting... Hopefully it's just the reporter who doesn't have a clue.

[sundancekid]

3. I take your point, but it is unlikely you will get a "ballot" ...

what those machines produce are "transaction verifiers" much like a bank deposit record or ATM or cc transaction at gas pump -- it will only provide verification of YOUR specifically selected action, and not a list of all your possible actions ... I don't mean to be picky in any way, and I appreciate that you, too, want to achieve clarity -- oh, geez, let's just hope we never get "chadded" over these electronic thieves!

[silverlib]

4. This shouldn't be too amazing...

The Texas Republican platform supports a paper ballot trail...

http://www.texasgop.org/library/RPTPlatform2002.pdf

under the Fair Elections Procedure

I am absolutely amazed.

This should make it easy to get those billboards going. It wouldn't have a chance otherwise.

[RedEagle]

5. Ballots please

Watch the lingo that might make paper trail not as secure as might be thought.

Details people, give no wiggle room for funky interpretations of the law- and which is legal- an electronic ballot or paper trail?

[bearfan454]

6. I haven't.

Maybe VelmaD or GopisEvil have.

[Cat Atomic]

7. I don't see why anyone would expect a fair election, when the

guy in the oval office has memos stating that he's above the law.

[Bushfire]

8. posted over at Austin Indymedia

hopefully someone can post a picture. Ballots should be the term of choice over "trail", but the billboards will get people thinking. Hopefully enough to take action as well.

http://austin.indymedia.org/newswire/display/16834/index.php