CVI members and other concerned citizens will continue the public action every weekday for the next two weeks from noon to 1:00 pm beginning Wednesday afternoon.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Coalition for Voting Integrity Announces People's Filibuster to Save the Vote

Contact information:

Robin Stelly

Coaltion for Voting Integrity

votingintegrity@aol.com

(c) 203.554.9121

(h) 215.736.2688

Doylestown - The People's Filibuster to Save the Vote continued Tuesday, with a constant presence outside the County Courthouse from 9:00am to 5:00pm.

As on Monday, members of the Coalition for Voting Integrity and other concerned citizens gathered outside the Doylestown Courthouse holding signs that said "Honk for Paper Ballots" and "Call Your Commissioners".

Tom Ulrich, lead organizer of the filibuster and member of the Coaltion of Voting Integrity, announced on Tuesday that CVI members and other concerned citizens will continue the public action every weekday for the next two weeks from noon to 1:00 pm beginning Wednesday afternoon.
CVI will also rally Wednesday morning from 9:00 am to 10:00am in the hour leading up to the Commissioners' meeting. The point of the three-day filibuster event is to remind the Commissioners of their responsibility to the voters of Bucks County, who deserve an accurate, verifiable and cost-effective voting system, which will provide a voter-verified paper ballot.

The public is encouraged to attend on Wednesday and every day of the filibuster over the next two weeks. Citizens will be invited to speak. Coalition members will be available at various times throughout the demonstration to answer questions about the issue of voter-verified paper ballots, voting machine options and the lawsuit brought by CVI against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Coalition for Voting Integrity

Submitter: Joan Brunwasser

Submitters Website: http://www.opednews.com/author/author79.html

Submitters Bio:

Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of transparency and the ability to accurately check and authenticate the vote cast, these systems can alter election results and therefore are simply antithetical to democratic principles and functioning.



Since the pivotal 2004 Presidential election, Joan has come to see the connection between a broken election system, a dysfunctional, corporate media and a total lack of campaign finance reform. This has led her to enlarge the parameters of her writing to include interviews with whistle-blowers and articulate others who give a view quite different from that presented by the mainstream media. She also turns the spotlight on activists and ordinary folks who are striving to make a difference, to clean up and improve their corner of the world. By focusing on these intrepid individuals, she gives hope and inspiration to those who might otherwise be turned off and alienated. She also interviews people in the arts in all their variations - authors, journalists, filmmakers, actors, playwrights, and artists. Why? The bottom line: without art and inspiration, we lose one of the best parts of ourselves. And we're all in this together. If Joan can keep even one of her fellow citizens going another day, she considers her job well done.


When Joan hit one million page views, OEN Managing Editor, Meryl Ann Butler interviewed her, turning interviewer briefly into interviewee. Read the interview here.

While the news is often quite depressing, Joan nevertheless strives to maintain her mantra: "Grab life now in an exuberant embrace!"


Joan has been Election Integrity Editor for OpEdNews since December, 2005. Her articles also appear at Huffington Post, RepublicMedia.TV and Scoop.co.nz.