The Debate Amongst Election Integrity Groups over Federal Legislation Provisions

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Hello Fellow American Patriots,

A document was released this week called:

"REQUEST BY VOTERS: To amend the bill formerly known as H.R. 550 (aka the "Holt bill") with remedies and recommendations for removing obstacles to democratic elections"

It is apparently supported by a wide variety of well-known election integrity activists and groups.

See http://www.wethepatriots.org/HAVA/requestbyvoters.pdf

Although wonderfully intentioned and heart-felt, it unfortunately makes some ill-advised recommendations; contains factual errors; and omits the most crucial measure needed to ensure election outcome accuracy.

I refer to this above document as "REQUEST" in my response below:

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The GOOD things in REQUEST are:

1. FREEDOM OF ACCESS TO ELECTIONS INFORMATION. This is critical for citizen oversight of elections!

and

2. A request that voting system use paper ballots. This is critical to enable independent checks of machine outcomes.

3. A statement that 2% manual audits are insufficient. Holt's previous audit provision is inadequate and did not require audits to be transparent or verifiable. See http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/ElectionIntegrityAudit.pdf

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The BAD things in REQUEST include:

1. RESTRUCTURE THE ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION (EAC)

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Please contact your US representatives and send them a copy of this press release: http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/release/Release-Election-Recommendations.pdf

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Founder and President of US Count Votes, dba The National Election Data Archive and volunteer for honest, accurately counted elections since 2003. Masters degree in mathematics with emphasis on computer science. Has written numerous academic and (more...)

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