Sign Voter Confidence Petition to Support HR 550 for voter verified paper record

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(http://www.rushholt.com/petition.html)

 

Sign the Voter Confidence Petition in Support of H.R. 550

 

Anything of value should be auditable. Votes are valuable, and each voter

should have the knowledge-and the confidence-that his or her vote was recorded

and counted as intended.

 

Passage of this bill (H.R. 550) will be a big step in restoring that

confidence, which is the very foundation of our democratic

republic. " - Rush Holt on The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act

of 2005

 

You can sign the petition if you haven't already. Link:

http://www.rushholt.com/petition.html (http://www.rushholt.com/petition.html)

 

RushHolt.com

 

On April 6 and 7, hundreds of citizen activists from across the country will

join a coalition of organizations in Washington D.C. to ask their Members of

Congress to cosponsor H.R.550, Rep. Rush Holt’s Voter Confidence and

Increased Accessibility Act.

 

While our citizen lobbyists are meeting with Members of Congress in DC, let's

get the phones ringing during the Lobby Days with the same message from

constituents back at home!

 

A call to your Representative during this time will amplify this message and

multiply our voices immeasurably!

 

Call the Capitol Switchboard and Ask for Your Representative’s Office. Call

202-225-3121 on Thursday April 6 or Friday April 7

 

The Capitol Switchboard at 202-225-3121 will be able to connect you to your

Representative’s office even if you are unsure of his or her name.

 

Urge your Representative to support HR 550, with this suggested sample message:

 

Reports of e-voting computer crashes, glitches and malfunctions have come in

from across the country, and a voter-verified paper ballot is just a common

sense protection under the circumstances. It’s the ONLY way we can confirm

that the electronic voting machines have counted our votes accurately.

 

I urge Representative _________ to co-sponsor HR 550, and safeguard our

electoral system against computer errors.â€

 

HR 550 would:

â— require a voter verified paper record of every vote,

â— establish mandatory random hand counted audits to verify the accuracy of

electronic tallies, and

â— prohibit the use of secret software and wireless communication devices in

voting machines.

 

Our current federal regulations permit computerized voting without requiring a

voter-verified paper record that would allow voters to confirm that a hard copy

of their votes has been recorded correctly.

 

The history of computer crashes, failures, and malfunctions that have occurred

since electronic voting was first employed make clear the necessity of passing

this common-sense legislation in time for the 2006 elections.

 

HR 550 has already earned the bipartisan support of more than 165

Congressional cosponsors. The recent change in leadership of the Committee on

House Administration has created a new opportunity for passage of this vital

election integrity measure this year.

 

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Here is an easy action to ask for support of HR 550 by email, it only takes a

minute:

 

_http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfmorgcode=VTUSA & hotissue=1_

(http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfmorgcode=VTUSA & hotissue=1)

 

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April 4, 2006

 

 

 

A change in the leadership of the House Administration Committee (the

Congressional committee that oversees voting reform) has created a new

opportunity to pass a critical piece of legislation.

 

The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act (H.R. 550) is a long

overdue measure to ensure verifiable, auditable, and reliable elections.

 

As you know, four months ago, I organized a petition drive through my

website that asked people to sign onto a letter to the House Administration

Committee.

 

The letter, you can sign by clicking here, urges the committee to take action

on H.R. 550.

 

On Friday, April 7th, the full list of signatures will be

delivered to the committee in Washington, D.C. That list, together with a

similar petition organized by I Count Coalition, have garnered signatures from

more than 40,000 Americans who love their democracy enough to call for

auditable elections.

 

Also, the I Count Coalition will bring hundreds of citizen activists to

Washington, D.C. this Thursday, April 6th and Friday, April 7th to advocate for

an immediate vote on H.R. 550. Previous efforts to raise support for my bill

helped generate 24 new co-sponsors from both parties. Today, 168 members of

Congress from both parties support the bill.

 

If you would like to be a citizen advocate in Washington, D.C. this week,

please visit the I Count Coalition's website. If you haven't signed my petition

already, you may do so by clicking here.

 

As I have said before, anything of value should be auditable. Votes are

valuable, and each voter should have the knowledge-and the confidence-that his

or her vote was recorded and counted as intended. Passage of H.R. 550 will be a

big step in restoring that confidence, which is the very foundation of our

democratic republic.

 

Sincerely,

 

RUSH HOLT

Member of Congress