Carter & Baker panel recommends Paper Trail Voting and Intn'l Observers

[Bernardo de La Paz]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-09-19-improving-elections_x.htm

Former President Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, the panel's co-leaders, cited the loss of confidence in a report they were to deliver Monday to President Bush and Congress. Among the commission's recommendations:

• Congress should pass a law requiring voter-verifiable paper audit trails on all electronic voting machines.

• The presidential primary system should be reorganized into four regional primaries, held after the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. A regional primary would take place each month from March to June.

• All "legitimate domestic and international election observers" should be granted unrestricted access to the election process, within the rules of the election.

[qanda]

1. Sounds like they saw something alarming

This should be interesting

[daninthemoon]

2. Can they make this happen?

[Skidmore]

3. So what's the BFEE up to now? Anytime James Baker is

involved in anything, I don't just have alarm bells go off, I have air raid sirens sounding.

[barbaraann]

5. James Baker's granddaughter died in a hot tub, in the kind of

situation that John Edwards might have sued the manufacturer for. Perhaps that changed him. Just perhaps.

http://www.drainsafe.com/Archives/archive_page_31.htm

[Selteri]

6. I think Baker is Alarmed because he realizes....

That if the republicans are doing it now that it'll have explosive consequences when the press asks the question - How did a republican congress with numbers in the mid 30s manage to gain seats?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Wariness is good, Tin foil paranoia is nuts. Deal with the recommendations

[wallwriter]

4. On the other hand, if even Baker admits

that elections look bad and have problems,, then they must stink to high heaven...

[Double T]

7. We can no longer trust our own election system.......

and we are telling people of other nations how it should be done??? Our entire American system of everything is broken and we need to fix it dammit!!!!!!

[kster]

8. Conyers not to happy with report

http://www.american.edu/ia/cfer/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Conyers is setting up a strawman argument and has nutso bad strategy

Conyers is afraid there will be a fee for photo IDs. This is a straw man argument. It is a legitimate concern, but is not reason for him to reject the panel's recommendations, especially with regard to verifiable paper trails for voting.

[goclark]

9. I am nominating because

this is what I prayed for --- I want Carter to really get involved and I want international overseers, YEP, here in the good old usa, that is what we need.

[VelmaD]

12. No...we want PAPER BALLOTS...

dammit, when will people get this. "Audit trail" still leaves them wiggle room. Demand a voter verified PAPER BALLOT that is the ballot of record for ALL recounts.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Yes, a ballot that can be view and put in the box.

[goclark]

14. I hear you Velma but who is really

listening to the Paper Ballot idea?

People are so into computer "up to date" ideas that they believe that PAPER Ballots are not 21st Century.

I'm with you on this one , but show me the progress so far.
Where are we with the paper ballot locations for 2006?

I want to help, just tell me what to do because no one seems to be getting the message.