Swiss Voting System

[Mary Eberle <m.eberle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

MoveOn.org just asked its members to thank Senators Boxer and Reid for 
speaking out yesterday in the Senate about the Ohio voting problems. I 
took that opportunity to make the following request to these two senators:

"Please look into requiring the use of the Swiss Voting System of 
color-coded, hand-counted ballots for all Federal elections. I just 
saw a demonstration this week that was truly impressive. No computers! 
For a given race, each candidate appears on a separate, uniquely 
colored, currency-sized ballot. The voter casts the single ballot that 
represents the candidate of the voter's choice. In a very open 
process, humans by hand place the ballots in color-coded stacks to be 
counted. The counting of the currency-sized ballots is done on 
currency-type sheet-counting machines such as banks use. Very fast and 
reliable. There are ways to accommodate multiple races in this system 
and to accommodate referenda and other voter issues."

If you have a chance to encourage others at the Federal level to adopt 
this system while the issue is hot, please do so. What we do in 
Boulder is of little national significance by itself (unfortunately 
for our fellow Americans). That doesn't mean that I don't hope for a 
transparent system to be used here in March, however!

Thanks for all your efforts to improve our voting and vote counting.

All the best,
Mary

Mary C. Eberle
1520 Cress Court
Boulder, CO 80304, USA
(303) 442-2164
m.eberle@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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