I wish that you would have an email process or something not so expensive. I support every cause you have but cant afford $30 + everytime. I am a widow on minimal income. There has to be another way.

A Radical Proposal for Election Reform


As a computer professional who has written tens of thousands of lines of code and designed several successful complex systems, I believe that all the software in voting systems should be open source in C running under Linux.


Paper ballots should be used so a permanent record is created. Voters should be able to see their ballot scanned and review the result of the scan immediately. Scans of mailed ballots could be provided by using publiic/private key access over the Internet.


Voting system suppliers should compete on things like reliability, cost, support and training provided, level of repair parts and devices and ability to provide quick maintenance service. Their systems should all use the same open source code.


Processors running the systems should not have the hardware to support any type of communication except direct physical connection, no wifi or bluetooth or other similar hardware should be allowed. Open source memory image tests should also be provided to poll watchers who could run the test on machines at will.


Go into a booth or set at your kitchen table and mark a paper ballot. Watch it being scanned and check the results or go online and use the private key provided with your ballot to see how it was recorded, with the software providing online access also open source.


This article provides good information on the weaknesses of the current systems. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/11/02/computer-experts-sound-warnings-safety-americas-voting-machines/6087174002/ Direct Recording Electronic voting systems, or DREs, should be replaced by scanners at all polling places which would scan ballots immediately and let the voter see the results.