DO NOT SUPPORT MOVEON, VOTETRUST USA, COMMON CAUSE, OR PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY ON THE HOLT BILL!!!
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Ask Congress to amend Holt Bill HR 811
Yesterday, Cong. Maxine Waters, an original co-sponsor of the Holt bill, stated publicly that she would be withdrawing her support of the bill and working for amendments.
We urge everyone to sign this new blast demanding that the Holt bill be amended.
Click here to see the Essential Revisions
http://www.votersunite.org/info/HR811EssentialRevisions.htm
Send an email to your Congressperson
http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/alert/?alertid=9406781&type=CO
In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the poll tax to be unconstitutional.
The purchase of electronic voting machines is like the poll tax, but it requires that voters pay to be disenfranchised, rather than paying to vote.
Election after election, thousands of reports show that Direct Record Electronic (DRE) voting machines are disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters across the country. Voters are confused over how to use them. They stand in line for hours because the machines are broken down, or they leave because they don't have time to wait. Poll workers, even with careful training, don't know how to help when something goes wrong, and something often does.
When all seems to go well, there is still serious doubt whether their votes are counted correctly. The fact is, sometimes they haven't been counted at all.
Study after study shows that adding a voter-verified paper trail to DREs simply adds more bells and whistles to a fundamentally flawed technology, requiring taxpayers to pay even more for their own disenfranchisement.
It's time for Congress to stop States from violating the civil rights of American voters. It's time for Congress to put a stop to the use of DREs.
Email your Representative and insist that they amend Representative Holt's bill, HR 811, to ban DREs from use in the United States and to require real paper ballots, marked by the voter or by a non-tabulating ballot-marking device, in every federal election.
Ask Congress to amend Holt Bill HR 811
Yesterday, Cong. Maxine Waters, an original co-sponsor of the Holt bill, stated publicly that she would be withdrawing her support of the bill and working for amendments.
We urge everyone to sign this new blast demanding that the Holt bill be amended.
Click here to see the Essential Revisions
http://www.votersunite.org/info/HR811EssentialRevisions.htm
Send an email to your Congressperson
http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/alert/?alertid=9406781&type=CO
In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the poll tax to be unconstitutional.
The purchase of electronic voting machines is like the poll tax, but it requires that voters pay to be disenfranchised, rather than paying to vote.
Election after election, thousands of reports show that Direct Record Electronic (DRE) voting machines are disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters across the country. Voters are confused over how to use them. They stand in line for hours because the machines are broken down, or they leave because they don't have time to wait. Poll workers, even with careful training, don't know how to help when something goes wrong, and something often does.
When all seems to go well, there is still serious doubt whether their votes are counted correctly. The fact is, sometimes they haven't been counted at all.
Study after study shows that adding a voter-verified paper trail to DREs simply adds more bells and whistles to a fundamentally flawed technology, requiring taxpayers to pay even more for their own disenfranchisement.
It's time for Congress to stop States from violating the civil rights of American voters. It's time for Congress to put a stop to the use of DREs.
Email your Representative and insist that they amend Representative Holt's bill, HR 811, to ban DREs from use in the United States and to require real paper ballots, marked by the voter or by a non-tabulating ballot-marking device, in every federal election.
Labels: Election integrity, HOLT, paper ballots
posted by CLB at 10:36 AM
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