There are more problems with 'Microsoft 811' than just the assault on the public's right to know. See http://www.votersunite.org/info/hr811Report.pdf . Right now it must be stopped, and then we must demand that Congress pass a "stripped down" bill focused on the most vital steps to better secure election 2008. We MUST BAN DREs and provide states funding to replace them with systems that use paper ballots, marked by hand or by accessible ballot-marking devices, and counted by hand or by automatic tabulator. And any time we use computers to tabulate votes, we must have statistically significant hand-count audits to check the accuracy of the machines then continually improve the entire system. with citizen involvement.
People "say" Congress will never ban DREs. But where's the proof? Congress' reason for being is to serve "We the People." It is up to all of us to act. So, call your Representative and engage at least ten other people to call or fax. Call until you are have been heard. Tell Representatives to vote NO on H.R. 811 and to insist on a real election reform bill that bans DREs and restores to our elections the requirement of true separate and independent checks and balances which can be open to the American people. Only our vote should be secret.
Abraham Lincoln said, "Elections belong to the people. It is their decision."
Would that Congress heard these words rather than the words of 'Microsoft & Co.'
So now it's time to have our voices heard, and make it OUR decision.
Microsoft 811 will be on the floor for a vote this week. It is vital that you act now. We are up against some powerful interests but New York citizens won, so can all of us…if each of us takes action. Stop Microsoft 811! Then Ban DREs!
Mary Ann Gould
Coalition for Voting Integrity
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