Only computers that fear jail should count votes: Lehto flies to KYThey can put computers into elections when they find a computer that fears going to jail. -- Paul R. Lehto, election integrity attorney.
Any expense or burden such compliance creates is trivial when compared to the value of the goal of maintaining our Republic. Integrity of our government can be no greater than the integrity of elections which put our government officials in office." Waters v. Gnemi, 907 So. 2d 307, 336 (Miss. Sup. Ct. 2005).
Whitney County, Kentucky, May, 2006: A local election with national ramifications
Seven losing candidates in Whitley County, Kentucky, who think they won their races for state representative, sheriff, and other offices on May 16, 2006, are fighting what looks to them like outrageous cheating. Everett attorney, Paul R. Lehto, who's also a complainant in a key case against Sequoia Voting Systems and Snohomish County, has flown out to help. The outcome of local cases such as these has national importance -- and impact here in Washington State -- as the evidence and legal reasoning is built, case by case, that the convenience of secret vote counting on unaccountable machines is not a legel defense against the undermining of democracy itself. Eventually, such cases will result in an outlawing of secret machine counts of our votes. Read more about the Kentucky experience on Black Box Voting site. Sign up for the National Hand Count Registry.
Only computers that fear jail should count votes: Lehto flies to KY | 2 comments (2 topical)
Only computers that fear jail should count votes: Lehto flies to KY | 2 comments (2 topical)
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