I consider this the one most important we are facing in this country today; of course every country that holds elections will be facing the same issue sooner or later.
Selma ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:05 AM Subject: Electronic Voting Machine Action > Commentary by Jim Borrell, sent via email: > > This is the action many of us have been waiting for regarding the 2004 > Electronic Voting Machines. > > Rep. Rush Holt , New Jersey (D), has introduced a bill (HR 2239) called > "The Voter Confidence and Increased Acceptability Act" which would require > all such machines to provide a paper audit trail and thus give some > assurance against fraud. Currently he has sixty cosponsors for this bill, > with not a single one being a Republican. The Republican leadership > opposes this legislation with a vengeance and is blocking efforts to bring > it to the floor where it can see the light of day and be voted on. We can > only guess why. > > If you have been keeping up with this issue of electronic vote fraud > through the many e-mails going around, you know how big it is. It will > make no difference how good any Democratic candidate is if the GOP > political operatives rig the results a la Florida and Georgia. As Josef > Stalin said, "It's not who does the voting, it's who does the counting." > > I suggest two simple steps to take. > > 1) Go to the volunteer page at the activist site www.verifiedvoting.org. > Sign up and follow the suggestions listed under What To Do. You can log > onto that page directly at: > > http://www.verifiedvoting.org/resources/hr2239_volunteers/hr2239_effort.asp"; > > 2) Let's lobby Moveon.org to make support of this bill a major grass > roots compaign just as they did so successfully with the FCC regulations > vote. This requires going to the Issue Forum at Moveon.org, filling out > the questionnaire and adding your own comments. It's the first one at the > top of the page. The direct link is: > http://www.actionforum.com/forum/?forum_id=222 > > If you would like to hear an excellent radio interview with Rep. Holt > outlining the details of his bill, log on to Democracy Now at: > http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/30/1624227 > > Other highly informative articles can be found at: > http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=452972 > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60563,00.html > http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/102503C.shtml > > For general ongoing information and action I highly recommend > www.verifiedvoting.org. Their Home page is loaded with stuff and things > to do. > > But at the very least I urge you to take the two steps listed above. > Spread it out over a couple of days if you have to, but get it done and > pass it on to your friends. I know we are exhausted and overwhelmed a lot > of the time by the sheer weight of this juggernaut bearing down on us, but > I believe this is part of their strategy and I personally refuse to let > them get away with it as long as I can move my fingers and open my mouth > to talk. We're too smart to be snookered like this again. So, come on, > get your wits together, folks, get on the web and kick some ass. _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
