Another GA Election Lawsuit
Well as if attacking GA’s voter identification law wasn’t enough a bunch of groups have now filed suit against the GA claiming our electronic voting system disenfrancises them.
Among its claims, the lawsuit by a group of activists contends the state’s touchscreen voting machines violate state constitutional guarantees that elections be conducted by secret ballot. Also, by simply pressing buttons on a screen, and not providing hard-copy evidence of the votes cast, voters cannot be assured their votes were accurately counted, according to the complaint.
Friggen lunacy if you ask me. They are correct that our new system doesn’t have a paper receipt (yet.. that addition will be tested in a very limited fashion this year, it does ask you to confirm your votes), but they even have a problem with the paper receipt claiming someone might be able to see the previous persons vote. My reply to this is… SO WHAT? Is it really that big a deal that the voter behind you if they were trying too might be able to catch a glance at who you voted for? The point of a “private” ballot is that votes should not be traceable to individuals (primarily elected officials getting such info), but who really cares if ‘one’ other voter happens to see who you voted for, I mean the blind for years have had “assistance” from poll workers and we’re not even talking people involved in the election operation process here. Am I just crazy or are people that paranoid about this stuff?
There is no perfect system people, I’d much rather have an electronic voting system that is far less prone to error, manipulation, and is far faster then previous systems in exchange for the remote possibility the voter behind me might be able to break the rules and roll back the printer tape and peek at some of my votes.
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