I voted today in Vermont’s 2018 primary.

We at Vermont Independent have championed old fashioned pen and paper ballots, hand counted in full public view by neighbors who comprise locally elected boards of civil authority.

The grotesqueness of the US of Empire’s corrupt, hackable, riggable electronic “voting” system has been well documented, and we’ve covered this story for years. (See Episode 40 of PLAN V-TV for detailed coverage of this insanity.)

In most respects, thankfully, here in Vermont, our town of Waitsfield has adhered to the old-fashioned non-digital approach.

Some photos.

“Official Polling Place” – open from 7 am to 7 pm – our town of Waitsfield’s elementary school gymnasium.

Our neighbors – who work in our Waitsfield town office – confirming that I am a tax-paying, property holding resident of our town of Waitsfield.

What’s called a “pen and paper ballot.” Positively archaic, in this digital age of electronic voting, and eminently less hackable.

Our ballot-collecting neighbors, who confirm my identity for a second time after I cast my votes.

And here’s where it gets sticky – I learned today that we in Waitsfield are now required by federal law to use an “AccuVote” tabulator to count our votes, according to my neighbors running the polling place (and, they say, according to Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos).

Why not count our votes in the gymnasium in full public view by flesh-and-blood people, members of elected boards of civil authority?

Stay tuned. This seems a slippery slope.

Get out there and VOTE today, Vermont – and champion the old fashioned way of casting your ballots!

Bless our 2nd Vermont Republic.