Sign The Petition To Congress: No More Stolen Elections
[Note from BFIA: Remember the last eight years, then sign the petition to Congress.]
Democrats.com
Do you remember the Stolen Elections of 2000 (Florida) and 2004 (Ohio)? We will never forget them, because we fought hard after both elections to count every vote.And now we can finally do something about it by passing Rep. Rush Holt's “Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act.”
Sign our petition to Congress
In 2000, the Republican Supreme Court blocked a manual recount of 175,000 never-counted paper ballots and appointed George Bush as President, with disastrous consequences for our nation and the world. And in 2004, many disputed Ohio votes were cast on touchscreens, so a manual recount was impossible.
After 2004, grassroots activists across the country fought to ban touchscreen voting and to require full manual recounts in close elections. Thanks to activists, the closest race in 2008 – the Minnesota Senate battle between Al Franken and Norm Coleman – used paper ballots which were recounted entirely by hand. This careful and precise manual recount changed the result from a Coleman lead of 477 on Election night to a Franken lead of 312 today.
But a Minnesota-style recount would be impossible in one-third of the U.S. because of paperless touchscreen voting. That's why Congress must pass Rep. Rush Holt's “Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act” to ban touchscreen voting and require manual recounts in close elections.
Sign our petition to Congress
Blog For Iowa 
I want to run for elected office to represent my area, and one suggestion I would make would be to change the way we vote.
It dawned on me a few years ago, that with peoples' desire to have up to the minute and accurate reporting on how their candidates are doing (accurate reporting is hard to come by). I realized that we could eliminate projection reporting and get rid of the partisan slants that local and national television practice by simply having a live tally.
Thanks to Al Gore we have internet in most (if not all) of our polling places. If we had a two machine system (one for counting the vote locally the way we currently do, and one that instantly posts to the internet with a screen to verify that your selection is correct) we would have a way to verify touch screen votes (by comparing the two numbers) while getting rid of the hacked machine problem. People could see instant returns nationwide instead of guess-timates based on exit polling (so no more Floridas or Ohios where a state goes for one candidate before going for the other). And no one would have to wait until morning to find out the winner.
[Obviously I don't have every single bug worked out in this comment post, but I've been contemplating this process for a few years now, and it can work. We could take elections back from the broadcasting groups who all pay one company to tell us who our President and elected officals will be.]
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