Don't concede your right to vote to the fraud of zero-evidence electronic elections!
Help dismantle the
Diebold DRE dictatorship that is destroying our election
integrity!
Protect Democracy and
Your Right To Vote by demanding a Paper Ballot!
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PAPER COUNTS!
ALWAYS VOTE BY PAPER BALLOT!
Guarantee
that your votes can be
counted
exactly as you cast
them in every election!
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Did Barack Obama win the election in Georgia, too?
Did Saxby Chambliss succeed in his Senate re-election bid?
THE INEXCUSABLE TRUTH IS THAT THERE IS NO WAY TO KNOW!
The Diebold DRE voting machines that most Georgian's feel forced to use in every election do
not produce the evidence required to support any candidate's claim to a Georgia election victory.
Given that Diebold removed the evidence for our votes back in 2002, the legitimacy of every single
local, state and national representative currently holding political office in our State is in question.
FIGHT FOR THE RESTORATION OF LEGIMATE ELECTIONS TO OUR STATE.
DEMAND THE ELECTION EVIDENCE OF PAPER BALLOTS FOR EVERY VOTE,
AND DEMAND THAT THOSE PAPER BALLOTS BE COUNTED AND AUDITED
AT THE PRECINCTS IN FULL PUBLIC VIEW.
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Also remember that, until legitimate elections are restored,
individual Georgian's can easily protect their own votes with
the paper evidence of an Absentee or Provisional Ballot:
Current Georgia
Election Law permits any registered voter to request
to receive
a
Paper Absentee Ballot by Mail
from their County Registrar's office with
NO REASON REQUIRED!
Paper Absentee & Provisional Ballots are the ONLY way that Georgia citizens
can presently secure verified evidence of their votes, the evidence that is the bedrock
requirement for any legitimate and transparent election process.
Voting by Paper Absentee Ballot is also the most convenient voting option
and can be done in just 3 simple steps:
[1] Request your Paper Absentee Ballot by submitting a short application form.
[2] Receive your Paper Ballot in the Mail and vote it privately at your convenience.
[3] Mail or deliver your sealed Paper Ballot to your County Registrar's office.
This web site is designed to be a single stop resource for providing all the information
and materials you may need to vote with confidence, vote with evidence and make
your vote for restoring legitimate elections to our State as easy as possible.
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The
Paper Absentee Ballot request form can be obtained from several sources and
in several ways, including contacting your County Registrar's office, calling the
Secretary of State office at 404-656-2871, downloading and printing the PDF version
found here or on the SoS web site, or by printing the web page found here on this site.
Complete your Ballot request by choosing ABSENTEE VOTING with
the explanation code "NR" (Reason Not
Required).
Mail,
Fax or Hand Deliver your Paper Ballot application form to the Registrar's office
for the County in which you are registered to vote. Your
County Registrar's address
is noted on your voter registration card, or
you can locate your Registrar's Office
using this Registrar Locator Page at the Secretary of State web site.
We recommend that requests for Paper Absentee
Ballots be Mailed at least 10 days before the
date of the election,
or Faxed or Hand Delivered at least 5 days prior to allow time for delivery.
With the exception of some first time voters, properly registered Georgian's will not need
to provide ID when submitting their Paper Absentee Ballot application.
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Upon receiving your "Reason Not Required" absentee ballot application, your County Registrar
is required to mail your Paper Absentee Ballot to the address on
your voter registration records.
Contact your County Registrar's office if your Paper Ballot does not arrive promptly!
After obtaining your Paper Ballot in the mail you can privately cast your votes at
your convenience, in accordance with Georgia laws and following the instructions
for sealing
your Paper Ballot in the provided double envelopes.
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Hand
Deliver or Mail your sealed Paper Ballot to your County Registrar's office.
When mailing, be sure to provide adequate postage, and consider return receipt
mail service if you wish to receive assurance that your votes were delivered.
Your County Registrar must receive your Paper Ballot before 7:00pm on
election day.
You can hand deliver your Paper Ballot to your County Registrar's office during any
hours that the offices are open, up to and including 7:00am to 7:00pm on election day.
State election law requires that ALL PAPER ABSENTEE BALLOTS that are properly completed
and delivered to your County Registrar's office by the election day deadline WILL BE COUNTED!
Paper Absentee Ballot counting begins at the close of polls on election day and continues until all
Paper Ballot votes have been included in the election final totals.
THE PAPER PROVISIONAL BALLOT OPTIONS
Georgia Law allows that if you are unable to present (or choose not to carry) an
accepted form of Photo ID when you appear to vote at your precinct polling place,
or if there is any type of challenge or issue with your voter registration status when
you appear to vote, then you MUST BE OFFERED the opportunity to vote using
a Paper Provisional Ballot.
In order to have your votes counted after when using a Paper Provisional Ballot,
you MUST present or fax a copy of your Photo ID to your County Registrar's office,
or otherwise correct any issues regarding your voter registration records with your
County election officials WITHIN 48 HOURS of the election day close of polls.
Georgia Law also requires that a voter MUST BE NOTIFIED with cause
if their Provisional Paper Ballot does not get counted for any reason!
See the Special Notes and Issues section below for additional information.
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PLEASE REGISTER YOUR SUPPORT OF PAPER BALLOTS!
PaperCounts.org encourages all voters to further register their personal protest
of zero-evidence electronic voting systems by sending an email containing your
registered voter name and address under the subject
"Democracy Needs Paper Ballots!"
to
PaperCounts@gmail.com
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SPECIAL NOTES AND ISSUES REGARDING PAPER BALLOT VOTING
BY MAIL AND IN PERSON:
(a) ID ISSUES: Accepted forms of ID for First Time Georgia Voters requesting their Paper Ballot by Mail
are identical to the choices for First Time voter registration and include a copy of a current and valid
photo ID, a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or
other government document that shows your name and address. The First Time voter ID is only required
for an Absentee Ballot application if it was not already submitted with their voter registration. You may
also be asked to show Photo ID when requesting or delivering your Paper Absentee Ballot at your
Registrar's office in person, though this is not a legal requirement. Any voters who appear to vote at
their precinct polling location on election day without an accepted form of Photo ID will need to vote
using a Paper Provisional Ballot, and they must then fax or present their Photo ID documents to their
County Registrar's office within 48 hours for their vote to be counted.
(b) IN PERSON PAPER BALLOT REQUESTS: You have the option of filing a "Reason Not Required"
application for a Paper Absentee Ballot in person. Voters should be clear, though, that Georgia laws
for all Paper Absentee Ballot requests filed as "NR" / "Reason Not Required", the voter must wait for
their Paper Absentee Ballot to be delivered from their County Registrar "by Mail Only" -- do not expect
to receive your Paper Absentee Ballot in person. Note that no absentee ballots are mailed or otherwise
issued on the day before or the day of an election.
(c) IN PERSON DELIVERY ISSUES: It is our understanding that your County Registrar's office (the County
Registrar office where you are registered to vote) is required by law to accept and process your properly
completed and sealed Paper Absentee Ballot when delivered in person during their regular business or
polling hours, including on election day. While In Person delivery to the County Registrar's office is the
most intentional, direct and secure way to deliver your Paper Ballot, we encourage voters to allow for
time to submit their Paper Ballot through the mail should their registrar's office refuse to honor or
accept an In Person delivery. It is very important to understand that if you attempt to deliver your Paper
Absentee Ballot to your precinct polling location on election day, the poll workers may confiscate your
Paper Ballot and force you to vote on a zero-evidence DRE. If you attempt to vote in person at your
precinct polling location after you have filed an application for a Paper Absentee Ballot and you cannot
surrender your Absentee Ballot to precinct poll workers, you will be directed to vote on a Paper
Provisional Ballot which will only be counted if your Absentee Ballot is not also delivered.
Please
report any and all Voting Problems or Irregularities
that you may experience to
1-866-OUR-VOTE
(1-866-687-8683)
Additional Official Voting Information can be found at the
Georgia Secretary of State web page.
About PaperCounts.org
PaperCounts.org is a non-partisan, not for profit volunteer group dedicated to protecting legitimate
election processes and voting rights through voter education, public legislative lobbying and civil court actions.
The information here and in our printed documents is designed to be a resource for providing the information
and materials you may need to vote with confidence, vote with evidence, and make your vote for the restoration
of legitimate elections in our State and our Nation as easy as possible. Great effort has been made to insure that
the information we present is accurate, but we are not election officials or attorneys. If you have any questions
about the information we present, about other voting procedures or about your voting rights, we urge to contact
both your County Registrar's office and the informed volunteer lawyers and trained staff at Election Protection.
Opinions expressed by PaperCounts.org questioning the sanity, intelligence and viability of using paperless,
Direct Recording Electronic [DRE] voting devices and secretive, proprietary tabulation software to conduct
public elections are based on the nearly unanimous opinions of independent computer systems and software
professionals from around the world. A few of these representative opinions regarding Georgia's Diebold DRE
systems from one of the world's top computer scientists and a consulting election systems analyst for the
Federal Election Assistance Commission, Barbara Simons, can be found in the presentation she recently
gave at Georgia Tech, a recording of which is available for web viewing by clicking here.