COMMISSIONERS COURT ON BALLOT !! :
Precinct 1, most likely to favor HMPB:
Recommendation: Justin Bowring
Precinct 3: favors HMPB:
Recommendation: David Eishan
Vote Early at Elections Office in Quitman,
today until 7 pm 3/1/24 or
Election Day, Tuesday 3/5/24 7 to 7
Hand-marked paper ballots (HMPB) are the best way to arrest wholesale cheating by electronic voting equipment, and restore the election balloting to County officials rather than allowing largely unaccountable employees of voting equipment vendors access to our votes. Cheating is still possible using paper ballots, but it's more expensive and difficult to do, and much easier to detect. In effect, it's RETAIL cheating instead of the WHOLESALE cheating electronic voting encourages and enables.
For the first time in over a decade, we used paper ballots in our Constitutional Amendment election in November ('23). At the insistence of the Elections Administrator's office, we had to offer a choice between hand marked ballots and electronic machine-marked ballots. In the election more than two thirds of us cast hand marked paper ballots with the remaining third casting machine marked.
Precinct 1, most likely to favor HMPB:
Recommendation: Justin Bowring
Precinct 3: favors HMPB:
Recommendation: David Eishan
Vote Early at Elections Office in Quitman,
today until 7 pm 3/1/24 or
Election Day, Tuesday 3/5/24 7 to 7
Hand-marked paper ballots (HMPB) are the best way to arrest wholesale cheating by electronic voting equipment, and restore the election balloting to County officials rather than allowing largely unaccountable employees of voting equipment vendors access to our votes. Cheating is still possible using paper ballots, but it's more expensive and difficult to do, and much easier to detect. In effect, it's RETAIL cheating instead of the WHOLESALE cheating electronic voting encourages and enables.
For the first time in over a decade, we used paper ballots in our Constitutional Amendment election in November ('23). At the insistence of the Elections Administrator's office, we had to offer a choice between hand marked ballots and electronic machine-marked ballots. In the election more than two thirds of us cast hand marked paper ballots with the remaining third casting machine marked.
There is a strong push in the elections office to have the elections be primarily electronic in nature, and purchase many electronic ballot markers to facilitate that. We say that aside from the unneeded expense of buying and programming the electronic ballot markers, there are security concerns with using them, even though they do produce recountable paper ballots.
Having any paper ballots in 2023 is a huge step forward. But we need to keep pushing for hand marking of the ballots to keep the momentum. Three things you can do:
1. If you're offered a "computer ballot" or a hand-marked ballot in a future election, CHOOSE HAND-MARKED.
2. Call and/or email your Wood County Commissioner and the County Judge, and tell them to drop the purchase of further electronic ballot markers.
3. Find out if Commissioner's Court Candidates are in favor of buying more electronic ballot markers, and if they are AGAINST IT, vote for them.
Two seats are contested in the 2024 election, precinct 1 and precinct 3.