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Action Alert --
Your Opportunity to Protect Our Elections!URGENT, URGENT, URGENT! Call your Congressperson NOW and ask him or her to cosponsor Rep. Rush Holt's new Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act for voter-verified paper ballots with audits of our federal elections. Do this TODAY so that your Rep will be listed as an initial cosponsor when the bill is introduced.
Pennsylvania needs this bill.
The new Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act will provide funding for the remaining 50 Pennsylvania counties (now using paperless touchscreen and pushbutton Direct Record Electronic machines known as DREs) to replace them with a modern optical scan system featuring voter-marked and voter-verified paper ballots and accessible ballot markers for people with disabilities. There is also funding in the bill for audits of our elections, and audits are essential for us to know that our votes are being counted accurately as cast.
Pennsylvania needs this bill.
Without Rep. Holt's new federal bill, in all probability our state will face the 2010 midterms and 2012 presidential election with over 7 million of our citizens again voting on insecure, unverifiable, paperless DRE voting machines. And Pennsylvania is unlikely to be able improve or replace our voting systems in the foreseeable future because our state and county budgets are so strapped right now. Worse yet, these DRE machines have a rather short lifespan and in the next few years many of the touchscreens placed into service in 2006 will need to be replaced. Without the federal funds Rep. Holt's bill provides to improve this situation, future elections in Pennsylvania may suffer.
PENNSYLVANIA NEEDS THIS BILL.
As of Friday, June 26 seven members of the Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation have signed on to the bill so far:
Rep. Chaka Fattah -- 2nd District
Rep. Jason Altmire -- 4th District
Rep. Joe Sestak -- 7th District
Rep. Christopher Carney -- 10th District
Rep. John Murtha -- 12th District
Rep. Mike Doyle -- 14th District
Rep. Tim Murphy -- 18th DistrictWe thank these Representatives for their support. If you vote in any of our other 12 remaining districts WE NEED YOU to contact your Congressperson ASAP.
Senator Specter has pledged support for a Senate version.
We recently celebrated Memorial Day that is all about honoring those brave men and women who gave their lives for our country. A big part of what they died for is our right to vote in fair and accurate elections. Please do your share to defend our right to vote. Speak up and ask YOUR Congressperson to join Rep. Holt to cosponsor the new Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act.
PS -- here is a handy list of Pennsylvania Representatives in Congress with lots of information!
http://tinyurl.com/PACongressRepsAgain -- ACTION ALERT FOR THE NEW BILL HERE:
http://tinyurl.com/ActionAlertHoltBill-509
MORE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP
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