Joan Goes to Washington: A follow-up

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The midterm elections are fast approaching and the 2008 elections are not that far off. We need to push hard for that elusive tipping point. Last week, there was a straw poll on Lou Dobbs' website about whether we should abandon electronic voting. Over 11,000 people responded in less than twenty-four hours and the ratio was 84 to 16 for abandoning electronic voting. Lou Dobbs is not a progressive and his show is not a bastion of liberal thinking. We should take heart from this and push ahead with the confidence that our way of thinking more and more reflects mainstream thought (if not the media) and that we are doing our part to restore and protect the cornerstone of our democracy: the right to free, fair and transparent elections. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Everything rests or falls on whether our elections are fairly run. There is no project more worthy of your time and energy.

Sign up today to order a bunch of DVDs and get them out there circulating. Contact your network of legislators, local media and any influential individuals you can think of. Apprise yourself about election developments on the national and local level. (Again, I highly recommend signing up online for John Gideon's Daily Voting News (put out by VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.org).

Then, talk about this subject with everyone you know, in the grocery line, at your kids' school, with your friends and neighbors. Ignorance is not an excuse and won't save our democracy from leaching away. Risk being tiresome. There's too much at stake to simply wait for people to come to their senses. Emphasize what we all believe, rather than approaching this in a divisive, partisan manner. Learn what I did from my conversation with Frank of Kansas City. All of us share a commitment to having as many people vote as possible and assuring that each vote is counted accurately and securely. "Count every vote and make every vote count." That's it, in a nutshell. Now, go get 'em!

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which exists for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election (more...)

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