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We are contacting you because you endorsed our Open Letter to the House
Administration Committee, urging the committee to release H.R.2239 to the
floor and support its passage.
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/article.asp?id=882
It is crucial to get co-sponsors immediately for S.1980, Graham's companion
bill in the Senate. Here's why. There are two other voting bills before the
Senate, and neither Clinton's nor Boxer's will give us a paper-trail by
November. Friendly legislators tell us that H.R.2239 is not likely to see
much progress until the Representatives know which bill will emerge in the
Senate.
Accordingly, we are launching a campaign to have thousands of people call
their Senators, urging them to co-sponsor. As part of the campaign, we are
now preparing to print the Open Letter, along with the list of endorsers,
and mail it to the appropriate committees in both houses of Congress, with
copies also to Senator Bob Graham and Representative Rush Holt.
You can help with this campaign in two ways:
1) Contact your Senators and encourage them to sign on to Graham's bill -
S.1980. Go here for guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/2xtpa
2) Make a donation to VerifiedVoting.org and help with the costs of the
campaign. Click here to donate now: https://www.verifiedvoting.org/Donate/
IN ADDITION
It has come to our attention that we had an error in the Open Letter. We
have corrected the error on our site and plan to correct it in the printout
we send to Congress. While the error is a minor point in one of the examples
of electronic voting problems, it is important to us to inform you since we
are making a correction to a document you have already endorsed.
The error occurs on the first page. We discovered that the election in
Bethel, Connecticut was conducted on lever machines. Our example implies
that it was held on electronic machines. We are replacing the Bethel example
with a valid electronic voting example, and changing a potentially confusing
reference to "last week".
HERE IS THE ORIGINAL PARAGRAPH:
Ask the voters in Fairfax County, Virginia whose voting machines subtracted
one in every hundred votes for the candidate who lost her seat on the School
Board this November. Ask the many Broward County, Florida voters who said in
a poll last week they were ''not confident at all'' that the electronic
system would accurately tally their votes. Ask the innumerable citizens of
Bethel, Connecticut whose concerns about whether their votes counted in this
November's election process prompted the state to impound 15 voting
machines.
HERE IS THE NEW PARAGRAPH:
Ask the voters in Fairfax County, Virginia whose voting machines subtracted
one in every hundred votes for the candidate who lost her seat on the School
Board in November 2003. Ask the many Broward County, Florida voters who said
in a 2003 poll they were ''not confident at all'' that the electronic system
would accurately tally their votes. Ask the 436 citizens of Wake County,
North Carolina whose votes were lost by flawed firmware in the November 2002
election.
Please respond to this email before March 8 ONLY if you object to the
change. We will remove your name from the list of endorsers.
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costs of the S.1980 campaign. Click here to donate now:
https://www.verifiedvoting.org/Donate/
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Thank you,
Ellen Theisen
Executive Director
www.verifiedvoting.org
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