The Problem

California election law currently classifies the touch screen of a Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machine as an election ballot. The current law allows votes to be cast directly, in pure electronic fashion, without a legally binding and tangible ballot to show who and what we have voted for. This puts the integrity of our votes in jeopardy, because errors – or fraud – can occur without leaving a trace. Under the current law, our votes could be lost or manipulated through computer error or through malicious use of computer programming skills.

The Solution

Through the Tangible Ballot Initiative, you can help to make a simple but vital change in the law: to disallow the screen of an electronic voting machine from being considered as a ballot. Instead, with your help through this Initiative, election ballots will be required to always be tangible, meaning that they will exist in physical form, and will always be there to be counted, by people, in the event that an audit or re-count is necessary.

The very integrity of our democratic system hangs on this seemingly small distinction. If we fail to correct this one loophole, our individual voices may be lost – as democracy falls victim to those who are capable of manipulating the digital domain.

Please help to protect democracy by supporting The Tangible Ballot Initiative. Please alert your friends by email that their help matters a great deal.

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