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June 10, 2007 at 15:08:04

Kucinich announces he's revoking support for Holt Bill HR 811

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2:40 p.m. - New Hampshire: Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced today at the national citizen action convention called DemocracyFest that he will revoking his support for the controversial election reform bill known as th Holt Bill. He said he will inform Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) shortly that he cannot support the bill. He also announced that he will reintroduce his bill formerly known as HR 6200 -- to hand count the presidential election.

HR 811 is a controversial bill which provides a paper trail, but adds an unprecedented federal mandate for secrecy in voting, requiring even election officials to sign nondisclosure agreements if they seek to examine computerized voting software. The bill quintuples the budget of and further empowers the Election Assistance Commission, led by four White House appointees, and it institutionalizes the use of technology for voting.

The DemocracyFest event featured Anthony Stevens, Assistant New Hampshire Secretary of State, teaching citizens and voting rights advocates from across the USA how to plan for and carry out hand counting of paper ballots at the polling place.

Kucinich remarked in a telephone broadcast that he will be reviewing the original HR 6200 -- the bill that requires hand counting the presidential election -- carefully and deliberately to make it as good a bill as possible.

Kucinich is a candidate for president in 2008.

Nancy Tobi, co-founder of Democracy for New Hampshire, Bev Harris, founder of Black Box Voting, and elections law attorney Paul Lehto are among the presenters at Democracy for New Hampshire and have been meeting with presidential candidates and other public officials to discuss the need to abolish secret vote counting procedures.

 

 

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Bev Harris is executive director of Black Box Voting, Inc. an advocacy group committed to restoring citizen oversight to elections.

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Been around the block a few times.
Blue PilgrimBeen around the block a few times.

Regardless

of the system used to produce ballots, the ballots have to be actual ballots, paper ballots, not just a 'trail'. They need to be recountable and permanent, able to be verified by the voter, and counted to determine the vote totals.

I don't have a great problem with voting machines being available to produce the ballots, especially for the benefit of the handicapped, but marking the ballots directly must also be an option . For instance, if the machine doesn't work, go down to the corner store and get some ball point pens -- and the voting goes ahead anyway. Or if people don't trust the machines, then fill out the ballots by hand. This is not a problem. Such ballots can be readable by machine or by hand, with at least some re-counted by hand to establish the machines appear to be working right, but hand counting all the ballots should always be available if anyone has doubts. It's not that hard to do.

Exit polling should also be standard practice; it's been shown to be a very accurate way to double check on votes and is done all over the world.

by Blue Pilgrim (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 998 comments) on Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 3:32:21 PM
 

i am a former teacher of 30 years with a history and political science major.I started getting politically active when Ronnie Regan ended my social security hopes for teahers
liberalsrocki am a former teacher of 30 years with a history and political science major.I started getting politically active when Ronnie Regan ended my social security hopes for teahers

paper the way to go

from all we have read about machine ballots they can never be trusted.I have seen articles where by pressing 1 button all the balots in a machine can be changed.I have read where machines have been programmed to ignor voting for candidates so nothing comes out if you vote wrong (democratic).I have read how a central outside computer can change a precints votes.We can never trust computers to uphold our democracy.Once again Dennis Kucinich has nailed what ails democracy right on the head by demanding all paper ballots and a system to make sure they are counted at the precint level with Republican and Democratic watchers.When will this nation get serious about preserving real Democracy and also about backing a candidate who will do what is best for the people of America

by liberalsrock (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 113 comments) on Monday, June 11, 2007 at 8:00:32 AM
 

 

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