Early voting starts

Voting has begun. I have been involved in some discussions with people who sincerely want the truth to be revealed with our systemic voting issues in Georgia. Last week, an emergency request was filed with the Georgia State Board of Elections that lists number of alleged problems associated with our State voting machines. The group requesting the emergency petitioned that, as a remedy, Georgia voters be allowed to use paper ballots, which is a standard contingency if a state or national emergency were to occur. Arizona avoided their issues from previous election in their recent primary by taking some commonsense steps. We should consider these same steps in Georgia: using absentee ballots instead of voting machines in this election.

Let me explain why we should consider using absentee ballots as a viable alternative. After you cast your vote on Georgia voting machines, your ballot is printed. On the other side of that page is a QR code that is simultaneously printed. You then take your sheet of paper and hand it to poll worker, and they insert it into the scanner. The scanner DOES NOT read your printed ballot selections, it reads the QR code. Not one person in or out of this State, to my knowledge, has been able to explain the correlation between the QR code and your selection of candidates that you made on the other side of the page. This is a big problem. What is the solution? The absentee ballot. When you turn in your absentee ballot, it is fed directly into the scanner, and the scanner reads YOUR selections and not a QR code. There is no QR code to be concerned about with an absentee ballot. Worried that you have waited too late to request an absentee ballot? Don’t be. The absentee ballots were only mailed out by the state beginning on October 10th. You have until 11 days before the November 8th election to request an absentee ballot. This means that you have until October 27 to submit a request for an absentee ballot. You can request an absentee ballot online, or by mail, email, fax, or in person. Just go to https://georgia.gov/vote-absentee-ballot where it is explained in detail. Be sure to follow directions closely when you receive your ballot. You do not want your ballot to be rejected because the directions weren’t correctly followed. If you cannot vote via absentee ballot, it is recommended that you cast your ballot in person at your voting precinct on November 8th. This reduces the chances that your votes could be tampered with.

There is one more recommendation: Take your absentee ballot to your County Board of Elections on November 8th. Please do not take it to your voting precinct, as they will not accept it. For Houston County, the address for the drop box is 2030 Kings Chapel Road, Perry, Ga, as it is open from 7AM to 7PM on Election Day, November 8th. There is another drop box in Warner Robins for early voting only. No one is telling you that you must do anything. It is your choice. This is simply my recommendation that you request an absentee ballot from the Secretary of State’s office and turn it in so it can be scanned on November 8th, between 7AM and 7PM. This reduces the chances that your ballot is mishandled.

As for the current Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, I cannot in good conscious, vote for him for any reason. There were simply to many problems with the 2020 election, and too few answers given by Raffensperger, as he, the Attorney General’s office, and the State Board of Elections tossed ALL pertinent questions back and forth with no resolution. Our legislators passed SB202, which is virtually unreadable and incomprehensible to most of us, as well as being gutted by the lieutenant governor and governor. My personal choice for Secretary of State is Libertarian Ted Metz. I seldom, if ever, have voted libertarian, but Mr. Metz is recommending that the State of Georgia return to paper ballots. In France, they vote using paper ballots in one day, and they are all counted by 8PM on the same day for the entire country. Imagine that.

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