Dear
friends,
I write to bring you
up to date on the activities of the Election Transparency Coalition (ETC) to
keep our safe transparent lever voting machines in New
York State. If you have time for nothing else,
please watch and circulate this short video, “It's
Time to Take a Stand for our Democracy” at:
http://nylevers.wordpress.com/
Since you last
heard from us we have been working very hard:
* We wrote letters to all the county
legislatures and executives, providing them with the information they weren't
otherwise receiving and encouraging them to pass resolutions in support of
retaining our secure and transparent lever voting system. We currently have resolutions from 20
counties plus Nassau and
Suffolk are in support of retaining
levers, but can't pass this type of "sense of" resolution.
* We also have similar resolutions from
various unions, political clubs and other organizations; see the list at the
site, http://nylevers.wordpress.com/.
* We placed articles in dozens of
newspapers throughout the state about the need to resist unconstitutional
legislation forcing us to surrender our observable, fraud-deterring lever system
for concealed, fraud-enabling computers.
* After participating in a public forum
with Commissioner Kellner and author Mark Crispin Miller, we made the video
referenced above in order to publicize the issue more widely.
* We
became a project of the International
Humanities
Center, a 501(c )(3) organization, so
that ETC can receive tax-deductible contributions to continue this
fight.
* We received a Statement of Support from
national Election Integrity experts, see ETCNYS.org, in which they
wrote:
"We consider theNew
Yorklitigation to be one of the best opportunities the nation
has for serious judicial consideration of the constitutional implications of
concealed vote counting."
* We created a new website,
NYLEVERS.nylevers.wordpress.com/, to compliment our blog, ETCNYS.org. The site
provides current information regarding the resolutions and what you can do to
help our efforts. Feel free to use the comparison chart between levers and
scanners, http://nylevers.wordpress.com/chart/ as a handout and as a general
reference piece.
* We went
to conferences and meetings to create relationships with our county governments
and county boards of election.
* We went to public hearings to present
our case against vote counting by secretly programmed, exploitable
computers.
* We worked with others preparing
comprehensive cost reports to demonstrate the steep costs that will fall on the
counties once the conversion to computerized vote-counting systems is
made.
* We have over 2,000 signatures on a
citizen petition and recently created a new site to make signing the petition
easier.
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Take action -- click here to contact your local newspaper or congress people:
Watch this video and pass it on!
Click here to see the most recent messages sent to congressional reps and local newspapers
ElectionTransparencyCoalitition.org
Andi Novick
Election Transparency Coalition, www.etcnys.org, http://nylevers.wordpress.com/
The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author
and do not necessarily reflect those of this website or its editors.
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