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All Fifty States May Face Voting Machine Lawsuit
according to an announcement made by activist Bernie Ellis at the premier of David Earnhardt's film "Uncounted [The Movie]" all fifty states could be receiving subpoenas in the National Clean Election lawsuit. The documentary film, like the lawsuit, takes a look at the issue of voting machine failure and the need for a solid paper trail. "The lawsuit is aimed at prohibiting the use of all types of vote counting machines, and requiring hand-counting of all primary and general election ballots in full view of the public. The lawsuit has raised significant constitutional questions challenging the generally accepted practices of state election officials of relying on "black box" voting machines to record and count the votes at each polling station, and allow tallying of votes by election officials outside the view of the general public."
I'm so weary of lawsuits. Can we bring a lawsuit to stop all of these ridiculous lawsuits?
Elections are a STATE issue and there should be nothing compelling any given state to do what another states chooses to do. We have another activist here that would presume to tell everyone in the country what to do. Screw that. The states should counter-sue this jack-ass and bankrupt him. He is wasting the money of every single taxpayer in the U.S.
As far as I am concerned, a state should be able to draw straws as part of their elections if that's how they want to do it. This moron Ellis, is really just trying to subvert our election process and nationalize it. This is BAD. Our election system was designed specifically to avoid nationalized voting.
The argument that computerized voting hides votes from the public is absurd. We just had a local election and all of the ballots were hidden from my view in a locked ballot box. What's new?
It depends what you mean by "contested": the lawsuit which resulted in an electoral result by fiat of the Supreme Court was brought by Bush to stop the actual counting of votes by lawful request.
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