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THANK YOU, Senator Specter!
VotePA commends Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter for becoming the first cosponsor added to Florida Senator Bill Nelson's Voter Confidence & Increased Accessibility Act, S. 1431. Senator Specter added his name to the bill on Friday, December 18 while VotePA's Executive Director Marybeth Kuznik was present in Washington D.C.
S. 1431 is the Senate version of New Jersey Representative Rush Holt's Voter Confidence & Increased Accessibility Act (HR 2894) that was introduced in the US House earlier this year and currently has 97 bipartisan cosponsors including several key US House leaders.
More information about the bill(s) is available at http://www.HR2894.org.
HR 2894 / S. 1431 are very important bills for Pennsylvania and other states that still use Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines, and for our entire country which is under a new and perhaps even more dangerous threat of Internet Voting. Both of these bills will replace the unverifiable and unauditable DREs with voter-marked paper ballots, will require basic audits of all federal elections, and will outlaw transmission of votes via the Internet.
Most importantly, HR 2894 / S. 1431 provides a basic floor level of voting system protection for all American voters while allowing individual states to institute even stronger audits and similar protections for their elections if desired.
VotePA thanks Senator Specter for his cosponsorship of the Voter Confidence & Increased Accessibility Act and for his ongoing support of fair and accurate elections. We hope that all Pennsylvania voters will take the time to thank Senator Specter as well.
We urge every Pennsylvanian to contact Senator Robert Casey, Jr. and ask him to join Senator Specter as a cosponsor of S. 1431, and for voters in other states to do likewise with their own Senators.
It is long past the time that we as a nation should finally decide to make sure every vote is truly counted by making sure that every American has basic protection from the problems that still plague our voting systems. HR 2894 / S. 1431 is a much-needed step to achieve that goal.
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