This from an email tonight from VoteTrustUSA.org email list, from their Executive Director, Joan Krawitz, urging citizens to call Congress NOW to demand passage of the Emergency Paper Ballot bills just filed in both the Senate and the House!
TELL CONGRESS TO PASS EMERGENCY PAPER BALLOT BILLS NOW!
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It All Comes Down to You! Your Calls Make a Difference. Call Your Representative NOW!
A flood of phone calls from constituents could be all it will take to break the roadblock at this critical moment. Pick up the phone NOW and call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-225-3121. Tell your Representative that Congress must pass HR 6187 before they adjourn, to make sure that every vote will count when voting machines malfunction or count votes incorrectly as they have in every primary this year.
If you don’t know your Representative’s name, click here and enter your zip code to find out. You can also use this link to find your Representative’s direct telephone number on Capitol Hill by clicking on his or her photo, which will appear once you’ve entered your zip code.
Then Immediately Call Both of Your Senators
As soon as you hang up with your Representative’s office, call the Senate switchboard at 202-224-3121 to speak with both of your Senators’ offices. Tell them to pass S. 3943 before Congress adjourns to ensure that every vote will count in November. If you don’t know both your Senators’ names, click here and enter your zip code to find out. You can also use this link to find your Senator’s direct telephone number on Capitol Hill by clicking on his or her photo, which will appear once you’ve entered your zip code.
Every moment counts, so please don’t delay. Make those phone calls as if our democracy depended on it — because that’s what it comes down to today.
Joan asks that you forward this to everyone you know. We ask the same. (The URL for this item is: https://bradblog.com/?p=3544)
OK. I just sent the following to everybody in my gmail address book (as bcc, no point in violating their privacy) under the subject: Tilting at Windmills.
I urge you all to send something similar (or anything at all) to all your friends and then to make the necessary 3 phone calls.
Good luck. Maybe this is a tipping point? Either way, it’s the least we can do for Brad.
I’m totally in favor of Brad Friedman’s proposal and I’m on record long ago as supporting paper ballots as the solution, without interim steps.
Can we now put the naive and useless notion of verified paper ballots to rest once and for all. Everybody knows that any computer can produce a verified paper ballot for Candidate X while concurrently producing a machine recorded vote for Candidate Y. That’s what came out in depositions in the citizens versus New Mexico case.
Support this legislation and do it now. The prospects, motives, etc. are irrelevant. It’s the only game in town.
Much time and effort has been spent on voter verified paper ballots, particularly Holts HR 550 legislation. In fact, there was a major conference devoted exclusively to getting this passed.
a) Clearly, this was not the solution then and it is not now.
b) However, Hold has other legislation that was not supported widely in the new faction of the voting rights community. It addresses racism and the right to vote, appropriately since election fraud is a race crime and crime against the poor in almost every major occurrence.
It’s time to re-evaluate strategy and tactics. The interim solution, inadequate and a diversion of resources, “voter verified paper ballots,” needs to be assigned to the scrap yard of voting rights history. Is it any wonder that the main line voting rights groups never got on board?
The goal is not just paper ballots but a complete revision of the election process.
Paper ballots are just part of the solution. We must get corporate and all other outside money out of elections. The undue influence of lies repeated again and again makes the voting process meaningless at times since the information upon which votes are cast is entirely without substance or veracity.
No more walks along the garden path of utopian quick fixes. We need paper ballots proposed just to go on record when the “train wreck hits.” We need the legislation passed to have a chance at a fair election. But we truly need a comprehensive revision of voting processes, supervision and truthfulness PLUS a clean campaign act with public financing of elections, total public financing.
Once all of that is done, it would be time for an apology to paper ballot supporters from who savaged and derided us as heretics for looking beyond the Holy Grail of HR 550.
WE COUNT 2006
CLE OH
Sept 29-30 2006
If ya can’t be there then consider a donation.
THIS CONFERENCE WILL BE HUGE