Only 1.4% of voters wanted a paper ballot during primary…
I’m all for choices, and I think if there are those out there that are concerned about the electronic touchscreen machines that they should have an alternative. Technically they do right now under Ohio current law. They can vote absentee ballot…In Ohio you do not even need a specific reason to request an absentee ballot and if you want the security of knowing that your ballot actually was received? You have options there as well. Yet, federal tax dollars as well as many trees will die so that paper ballots will be available at this next presidential election. Let’s look at the numbers as reported in the Blade:
Ohio printed 1.02 million backup paper ballots for the March primary and 14,484 — or 1.4 percent — were used.
I fully admit that I’m a tree hugger, a recycler and the type of person who this type of waste of tree, paper and tax dollars makes no sense. One tree equals 8,333.3 pieces of paper, that’s without even getting into the energy required or the cost to the taxpayers for creating ballots that were not used, just the trees alone.
So, my advice to those of you who don’t feel electronic touch screen machines are safe? Save a tree or two, vote absentee and I’d personally much rather see that promoted as an option than the current system of demanding each of the 53 counties that have touch screens now have to have enough ballots for 25% of the votes from 2004 as opposed to the ten percent that was demanded during the primary. Not to mention voting absentee ballot creates another energy saving moment, you don’t even have to drive to the polls…And there’s no waiting…
Another bi-product of the Democrats irrational obsession with Diebold-the company that makes most of the voting machines. Interestingly, you heard no complaints after the 2006 election. I guess the machines are unreliable only when Democrats lose.
July 26th, 2008 at 7:39 amNo, Jo, of course the machines always work fine when Democrats win.
July 27th, 2008 at 2:07 pm