On September 11, 2007, Robert L. Schulz and many other voters filed a lawsuit in federal court, alleging that the U.S. Constitution requires reliable vote-counting methods. The lawsuit also alleges that only paper ballots, hand-counted, are truly reliable. The case is Schulz v State of New York, 1:07-cv-943-LEK, in the northern district of New York.
There have been other attempts to persuade courts to invalidate certain types of vote-counting machines, and they have generally not succeeded. Even sitting Congressman Robert Wexler’s lawsuit did not prevail. The Schulz lawsuit is somewhat notable because it is endeavoring to sue elections officials in all 50 states. There are 150 voter-plaintiffs, three from each state. For more information about this lawsuit, see www.electionguardians.org, or www.votefraud.org. Robert L. Schulz was the New York Libertarian gubernatorial candidate in 1994. In 1994 he won a lawsuit in federal court, requiring New York to give the list of registered voters to the unqualified parties on the same basis that the state provided the list to the qualified parties.
I think this is a good idea. Paper ballots take longer to count but after subjecting us to months of mind numbing campaigning if it takes a few days to have a verifiable result… who cares? Let the politicians sweat it out for a while waiting for the results!
And let there be only two election days per year — Primary and General/ Run-off — all “special elections” would be held on either of these two dates (no more special election days exclusively for school board, etc.
Paper ballot’s are great. But like the 1962 election paper ballot can be cheated too.
Yes, Glenn, but it’s harder, or at least it seems that it would be. I say that because hacking the voting machines is demonstrably easy.