I'm out of town and too busy to follow the blow-by-blow development here, but to answer your question on how we should proceed with speaking with our Sens and Reps, I think it depends on the emphasis at this point. A lot of the Senators and Reps need to be educated on the very basic issue about the need for VVPB's. So we should be clear how necessary that is. It's not that you can't point out in a positive way that some crucial changes have to be made in the bill to make sure that VVPB's work the way they are supposed to, i.e. that machine malfunction or malfeasance can't still give us false results.
I heard something about the bill coming up before the Sen.committee after March 3rd. It would probably be another week at least before it got to the House committee. If anyone has better information on that timeline, they should speak up.
Margit,
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