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Hand-Counted Paper Ballot Election Administration Handbook
Hands-On Elections
An Informational Handbook for Running Real Elections, Using Real Paper Ballots, Counted by Real People
Authored by Nancy Tobi
Do you believe in secret vote counting? No? If instead, you believe votes ought to be cast in private but counted in public, this Handbook is for you.
Hackable e-voting machines began to be used in America's elections in the mid-1960s, then exploded in use after the 2000 election, and they now count the lion's share of America's ballots. With computerization came privatization of our elections as well. Your vote-the right by which all your other rights are secured-is now the private property and trade secret of corporate e-voting industrialists. These for profit corporations seize our ballots, count them in secret, tell us what the results are, and then lock away the records, so nobody can ever verify our election results.
This is no way to run a democracy! We need to reclaim our public elections. Fortunately for us, it turns out this is something we all can do!
Using this Handbook you can learn about:
*voting rights
*public elections
*election laws
*how our votes are or are not being counted
*the people running our elections
*how to run real elections
*how to overcome challenges in taking back our elections
*the federal government's role in our elections
*the people making the decisions affecting our elections
*citizen election watchdog groups
Hands-On Elections: An Informational Handbook for Running Real Elections, Using Real Paper Ballots, Counted by Real People
An Informational Handbook for Running Real Elections, Using Real Paper Ballots, Counted by Real People
Authored by Nancy Tobi
Do you believe in secret vote counts? If you don't think secret vote counting belongs in the greatest democracy on earth, and you want to do something about it, then this handbook is for you.
Hackable e-voting machines began to be used in America's elections in the mid-1960s, then exploded in use after the 2000 election, and they now count the lion's share of America's ballots. With computerization came privatization of our elections as well. Your vote-the right by which all your other rights are secured-is now the private property and trade secret of corporate e-voting industrialists. These for profit corporations seize our ballots, count them in secret, tell us what the results are, and then lock away the records, so nobody can ever verify our election results.
This is no way to run a democracy! We need to reclaim our public elections. Fortunately for us, it turns out this is something we all can do!
Using this Handbook you can learn about:
*voting rights
*public elections
*election laws
*how our votes are or are not being counted
*the people running our elections
*how to run real elections
*how to overcome challenges in taking back our elections
*the federal government's role in our elections
*the people making the decisions affecting our elections
*citizen election watchdog groups
- Publication Date:
- Apr 12 2010
- ISBN/EAN13:
- 1452806128 / 9781452806129
- Page Count:
- 214
- Binding Type:
- US Trade Paper
- Trim Size:
- 7.5" x 9.25"
- Language:
- English
- Color:
- Black and White
- Related Categories:
- Political Science / Civics & Citizenship
About the author:
Nancy Tobi is best known as a leader in the national voting rights movement for her seminal work exposing the dangers and fallacies in various election reform efforts past, present and future. She is co-founder, former Chair, and website editor for Democracy for New Hampshire, founder and Chair of the NH Fair Elections Committee. Nancy is also on the Board of Black Box Voting, and is Adviser to Election Defense Alliance and the Election Transparency Coalition. She is the author of "Weary Grace: The Life and Times of an MS-Endowed Democracy Warrior, "Hands-on Elections: An Information Handbook for Running Real Elections, Using Real Paper Ballots, Counted by Real People" and "We're Counting the Votes and You Can Too". Her article about election reform fallacies is included in the April 2008 book "Loser Take All" edited by Mark Crispin Miller. Nancy's Youtube videos can be seen at www.youtube.com/handsonelections.
