Every Vote Counts in NM!

[Twist_U_Up]

Go watch Governor Bill Richardson sign the Count Every Vote Act -- the bill requiring paper ballots in every County of New Mexico. The video is now archived and available, along with video of Governor Richardson's State of the State speech: Click Here. Even more important, while you're there be sure to sign the petition to get every state to join New Mexico in passing legislation to make every vote count.

http://www.democracyfornewmexico.com/

[Greeby]

1. Woot

My only wish is NM had more seats ;)

[msongs]

2. votes are counted by hand or by corruptable machine?

paper ballots need hand counting.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/democratsmugs.htm

[Junkdrawer]

4. Yep. The Hursti Hack was on an Optical Scanner...

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002164.htm

Without mandatory, random recounts before and after the certification of the election, optical ballots are just a feel-good device.

I predicted that this would be a fallback position:

"You see, we're giving you a Voter Verified Paper Ballot (we're just never going to hand count those ballots)"

[Amaryllis]

3. See John Gideon's article on this on Bradblog - there are some catches

to this.
"This all sounds wonderful, except………opponents of the legislation managed to get the legislation amended so that voting systems "owned or used" as of 1 May 2006 that do not use paper ballots can continue to be used until, among other things, debt on purchases of those machines are paid by the state. Then, the bill that appropriated funds to pay off the debt died in committee. Now the state needs to find the money to pay off the debt."
The debt is currently about four million dollars.

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002485.htm#More