Yesterday I had a long and enlightening conversation with a member of the League of Women Voters. She is the Ohio elections specialists for the League and is a member of Blackwell's HAVA Committee.
Most of you are aware that the League has taken a position of opposition to a verified voter paper ballot or any paper trial. Mrs. Rosenfield said, "...I hope you understand that I cannot take a public position in favor of voter verified paper ballot trails because I am a League spokesperson on election laws and our national president has taken a public position in opposition". I assured her that we would not expect her to do that and would not quote her as being in opposition.
I asked her for her personal opinion and she stated that she is in favor of "optical scan" rather than "touch screen".
Optical scan is the lesser of two evils and does provide a ballot which can be used for auditing purposes.
She also implied to me that several of the state League organizations were working to get the National position changed. She felt that the president received some bad information and advice on this issue.
I think that we should help her out, by doing an e-mail or letter writing campaign. This is a very powerful group and to get them on our side would be a great coup.
Check out this interesting rebuttal to the League's position statement.
http://www.kobly.com/lwvresponse.pdfLWV Address
http://www.lwv.org You can go here and click on "Contact" which will bring up a form to fill in your remarks.
Or their e-mail address is lwv@lwv.org
Take a few minutes and do this, please.
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