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It basically works like this. I am asking election officials and our state representatives to support a law which will result in the preservation of important electronic documents for the verification of election results, the digital ballot images created of each ballot by modern ballot scanning machines. We are all familiar with these machines. When you push your ballot into the slot of the machine at your polling place, it takes a jpeg picture of each ballot in milliseconds, and stores it in the memory.
It is supposed to be part of the audit trail, which can be examined by citizens who obtain the electronic files. Although not all cities have this feature, the ones that don't are in the process of being phased out, as they are over 10 years old and never meant to be in service that long.
But some election officials are fighting tooth-and-nail to keep these image secret, and even to have the choice to destroy them. Our law at Digital Ballot Images are Public Record would require these images be preserved as part of the public record that they are, and for election departments to post them online, so anyone with enough time on their hands can count the votes or themselves.
SINCE BALLOTS ARE ENTIRELY ANONYMOUS, THE IMAGES ARE ANONYMOUS TOO.
It is impossible to trace a ballot to any person, as it should be. But the "secret ballot" doesn't mean secret counting, and never did. This advance in technology can make our elections more secure from any kind of hacking. This was demonstrated in the HBO documentary Hacking Democracy, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t75xvZ3osFg
With a check on the ballot counts like this it is unlikely hacking will be attempted. I am presently contacting my state representative and state senator to ask her to file a bill for this law so it can be voted on. We will be watching these votes closely. Please comment or message me if you would like to add your name, as a constituent, to this campaign.
How the law would read: “Any and all digital ballot images produced as a part of any stage of the electronic vote counting process shall be considered open public record, and posted on the Internet for public examination, or made available on a DVD.”
Thank you!
Background article, by Bev Harris, "godmother" of the Integrity in Vote Counting movement: http://blackboxvoting.org/ballot-images/ Thanks!
It is supposed to be part of the audit trail, which can be examined by citizens who obtain the electronic files. Although not all cities have this feature, the ones that don't are in the process of being phased out, as they are over 10 years old and never meant to be in service that long.
But some election officials are fighting tooth-and-nail to keep these image secret, and even to have the choice to destroy them. Our law at Digital Ballot Images are Public Record would require these images be preserved as part of the public record that they are, and for election departments to post them online, so anyone with enough time on their hands can count the votes or themselves.
SINCE BALLOTS ARE ENTIRELY ANONYMOUS, THE IMAGES ARE ANONYMOUS TOO.
It is impossible to trace a ballot to any person, as it should be. But the "secret ballot" doesn't mean secret counting, and never did. This advance in technology can make our elections more secure from any kind of hacking. This was demonstrated in the HBO documentary Hacking Democracy, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t75xvZ3osFg
With a check on the ballot counts like this it is unlikely hacking will be attempted. I am presently contacting my state representative and state senator to ask her to file a bill for this law so it can be voted on. We will be watching these votes closely. Please comment or message me if you would like to add your name, as a constituent, to this campaign.
How the law would read: “Any and all digital ballot images produced as a part of any stage of the electronic vote counting process shall be considered open public record, and posted on the Internet for public examination, or made available on a DVD.”
Thank you!
Background article, by Bev Harris, "godmother" of the Integrity in Vote Counting movement: http://blackboxvoting.org/ballot-images/ Thanks!
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