Get out the Vote Reprise

This is a short follow-up to a previous post. I guess this was an epiphany I had that was better written down or else it stood a good chance of being forgotten with many other ideas and notions I've had over the years.

The general population has the power to exert pressure on the voting authorities to implement paper copies of ballots. Here's how. If we all cast absentee ballots, then by default, there would be a paper trail. In addition, I'm pretty sure that, if a significant number of us did it in protest to the current position, then this would be the last time it would probably have to be done (I'm guessing that all the work of counting mailed in ballots would convince someone that just having a paper backup in the electronic system would be a good alternative).