Dear American Patriot: Amending the Holt Bill

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Tag(s): Election Law; Election Reform; Election Reform HR 550; Election-Voting Issues; Electronic Voting; USA United States Of America; Voter Disenfranchisement; Voting Integrity; Voting Laws Federal HAVA; Voting Machines; Voting Reform; Voting Technology
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December 29, 2006 at 21:25:43

Headlined on 12/29/06:
Dear American Patriot: Amending the Holt Bill

by Nancy Tobi Page 1 of 3 page(s)

http://www.opednews.com

Dear American Patriot,

You have undoubtedly been solicited by several large organizations and others to sign petitions for election reform at the national level. There are many legislative proposals to amend the Help America Vote Act HAVA).

There are divergent opinions on how to make our way out. We represent an affiliation of citizen election reformers working in a direction that we know can WORK and can restore democratic elections to our country.

We are asking for your support of our Request by Voters, and for permission to add your name to our letter to Congress. Please respond with your affirmation of support TODAY. Send your name, state, and organization (if applicable) in a reply to this email or send your reply to patriotism@earthlink.net.

Then, pass on this request to everyone you know. Contact YOUR Congressional representatives and ask them to help amend the Holt Bill to include the remedies and recommendations found in the Request by Voters. Contact Congressman Rush Holt, and tell him you support the Request by Voters.

Contact Congressman Holt here: http://holt.house.gov/contact.shtml

Early sponsors of our Request by Voters include the following organizations and individuals:

BlackBoxVoting.ORG

Joan Brunwasser

Abbe Waldman Delozier

Democracy for New Hampshire

Democracy for New Hampshire Fair Elections Committee

Election Defense Alliance

Bev Harris

Thom Hartmann

Rob Kall

Vickie Karp

Josh Mitteldorf

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Take action -- click here to contact your local newspaper or congress people:
Amend the Holt Bill to support democratic elections

Click here to see the most recent messages sent to congressional reps and local newspapers

Nancy Tobi is cofounder, former Chair, website editor for Democracy for New Hampshire (DFNH), and Chair of the NH Fair Elections Committee. Nancy is the author of numerous articles on election integrity, including "The Gifts of HAVA: Time to Ask for a Refund," "What's Wrong with the Holt Bill," "We're Counting the Votes: An Election Preparedness Kit," and "Hands-on Elections: An Information Handbook for Running Real Elections, Using Real Paper Ballots, Counted by Real People". Her article about election reform fallacies is included in the April 2008 book "Losers Take All" edited by Mark Crispin Miller.

Nancy believes in the principles embodied in our Constitution, and that groups like Election Defense Alliance and DFNH can play a unique role by empowering ordinary people to do extraordinary things.