Hands-on elections : an informational handbook for running real elections, using real paper ballots, counted by real people : lessons from New Hampshire
"Do you believe in secret elections? If you don't believe concealed vote counting belongs in the greatest democracy on earth, and you want to do something about it, then this handbook is for you. Hackable e-voting machines began to be used in America's elections in the mid-1960s; then exploded in use after the 2000 election, and they now count the lion's share of America's ballots. With computerization came privatization of our elections as well. Your vote - the right by which all your other rights are secured - is now the private property and trade secret of corporate e-voting industrialists. These for profit corporations seize our ballots, count them in secret, tell us what the results are, and then lock away the records, so nobody can ever verify our election results. This is no way to run a democracy! We need to reclaim our public elections. Fortunately for us, it turns out this is something we all can do!"--Back cover
Print Book, English, 2011, ©2010
Healing Mountain Publications, Wilton, N.H., 2011, ©2010