Electronic Voting Must Be More than Smoke and Mirrors

In a democracy, voting is a sacred right and responsibility of its citizens. Making sure votes are tallied accurately and honestly is a sacred trust charged to the government. Requiring citizens to cast ballots electronically without the accountability of a paper trail is a breach of that trust. It is not a democratic election if the results cannot be independently and tangibly verified.

Paperless electronic voting, as it currently exists, is vulnerable to fraud. This is as unacceptable to democratic citizens as the idea of no receipts at the ATM is to bank customers. Right now is the time for our representatives to involve themselves in fixing this new system by insuring that it becomes one of tamperproof integrity.

If our representatives wish us to believe that they, too, hold sacred a fair and honest democratic voting process, they need to co-sponsor H.R. 550--the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act. Contact your representative's office and urge him or her to do so

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