avoid diebold: register absentee

Avoid the questionable Diebold machines. Register as an absentee voter so that you can have a receipt of your vote. In many states, this takes quite a while so DO IT NOW. [I’ll still love you even if you vote for someone i don’t like, but i’ll be very angry with you for not voting.]

If you’re in California, here’s the form. It takes all of 30 seconds to fill out.

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13 thoughts on “avoid diebold: register absentee

  1. Billz

    Voting is the opiate of the masses.
    I remember the last presidential election when one of the guys got more (popular) votes than the other guy, but so-and-so won anyways.

    Hmm.

  2. Billz

    Voting is the opiate of the masses.
    I remember the last presidential election when one of the guys got more (popular) votes than the other guy, but so-and-so won anyways.

    Hmm.

  3. Medicated Dad

    Now here’s an idea

    apophenia: avoid diebold: register absentee Why didn’t I think of this? Vote absentee and avoid EEVVVIILLLL Diebold. I think in MD, you have to have a ‘better’ reason than ‘Diebold machines are untested and potentially dangerous’….

  4. Clif Spab

    Are you aware that in most districts absentee ballots are not counted at all unless the vote differential between the top two candidates is less than the number of absentees filed?

    Here’s to having your vote not counted.

  5. Sean

    You’re not avoiding Diebold by absentee voting; Diebold machines count the mail-ins too.

    (At least you’ll have a paper record, but that’s not good enough in my book. We need an open and observable vote-counting system.)

  6. zephoria

    I’m certainly NOT arguing that the system is either fair or accountable. But you can’t just avoid the system and expect it to change itself. Never gonna happen.

    If the elections are as close this fall as they are projected to be (ah hem California) then expect a recount. And personally, i would like to have a receipt for that moment.

    I would love a better system and Sean, i hope you are fighting that fight too.

  7. blog.holotone.net

    Bypass Diebold – Go Absentee!!

    With all the recent revelations of software insecurities and shady practices going on with Diebold’s voting machines, it’s good to see that alternatives will exist, even if they become widespread in use. Zephoria has noted that if you’d prefer to…

  8. Medicated Dad

    Now here’s an idea

    apophenia: avoid diebold: register absentee Why didn’t I think of this? Vote absentee and avoid EEVVVIILLLL Diebold. I think in MD, you have to have a ‘better’ reason than ‘Diebold machines are untested and potentially dangerous’….

  9. Medicated Dad

    Now here’s an idea

    apophenia: avoid diebold: register absentee Why didn’t I think of this? Vote absentee and avoid EEVVVIILLLL Diebold. I think in MD, you have to have a ‘better’ reason than ‘Diebold machines are untested and potentially dangerous’….

  10. blog.holotone.net

    Bypass Diebold – Go Absentee!!

    With all the recent revelations of software insecurities and shady practices going on with Diebold’s voting machines, it’s good to see that alternatives will exist, even if they become widespread in use. Zephoria has noted that if you’d prefer to…

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