On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 3:42 PM Ryan Graham via Lpgaexcomm <lpgaexcomm@lists.lpgeorgia.com> wrote:

Hey Team,

We've got another opportunity to help with election reform brought to us again by the Coalition for Good Governance. Essentially, we'd be making a request to the Georgia Secretary of State as an "interested party" to change how elections are run. I've attached the detailed requests, but also wanted to give a rundown here.

Voters would be able to drop off their absentee mail ballots at their home precinct on election day or at an early voting center during early voting. This would accomplish numerous goals as listed on the attached Rule 1 Exhibit, such as reducing polling place lines, and eliminating the risk of mail ballot delivery or improper rejection. It would also provide a hand marked paper ballot.

The new BMD screens must be installed in a manner that protects the voter's rights to a secret ballot. [The screens as installed during the pilot elections permitted people across the room to see how people were voting.]

Paper pollbook back up must be provided in the polling place to be used for reference when electronic pollbooks are malfunctioning or contain discrepancies. This prevents unnecessary provisional ballots and disenfranchisement. The State has a bad record of electronic pollbook failures causing people to be turned away or forced to vote provisional ballots. The attempted implementation of the new electronic pollbooks is not going well, and further demands the paper back up requirement we propose.

A rule to provide for a more realistic transition to a new voting system. The implementation risk of this transition are massive and the state failed the first test in the 6 pilots.

In order to be a formal petitioner we need to do prepare an affidavit and write a cover letter that includes your parties' interest in the matter, then send package to the SOS. We'd like to get the package sent tomorrow at the latest so need to move QUICKLY.

As such, Smythe DuVal is making a motion to support these rule changes and send out the necessary documents to the Secretary of State to petition for their inclusion. Ryan Graham is seconding this and we can go ahead and vote. PLEASE VOTE TONIGHT if you can.

Let me know if you have any questions. This is a great opportunity for us. The Coalition for Good Governance seems to think we'd be the biggest org to sign on if we do, which could be leveraged for some good press.

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In Liberty,
Ryan Graham
Chair, Libertarian Party of Georgia

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