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[Bill Bored]

the credit if it's published. :)

I fact-checked the part about Jackson's amendment.

Voting Rights Group Pushes Jesse Jackson Jr. on Constitutional Amendment

Washington, Apr. 1, 2005

In the wake of the controversial Presidential election of 2004, after which Congress challenged the electoral votes of a state for the first time in over one hundred years, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) has introduced a joint resolution proposing a Constitutional Amendment to explicitly guarantee all American citizens at least 18 years of age the right to vote. But members of a grass roots organization fighting election fraud and voter disenfranchisement don't think Jackson's amendment goes far enough.

In their petition to Mr. Jackson, members of the non-partisan Citizens for Open Voting, Election Reform and Un-Programming (COVERUP) are asking Mr. Jackson to introduce an additional measure to be known as the Amendment to Prevent and Remove Illegitimate Leaders (APRIL). Their additional language provides for equal numbers of ballots and voting machines in all jurisdictions, bans all forms of paperless electronic voting, requires secretaries of state to be non-partisan, bans lobbying and political contributions by voting machine companies, and retroactively changes both Election Day 2004 and Election Day 2000 to April 1st, 2004 and April 1st, 2000 respectively.

COVERUP's petition states, "If the votes don't ADD up, we must not SHUT up. As George W. Bush himself has said, 'There’s an old saying in Tennessee – I know it’s in Texas – it’s probably in Tennessee – that says: Fool me once, shame on… shame on you. But fool me… you can’t get fooled again.’ And therefore, with respect to the last two presidential elections, WE must say to the people of Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, America and the world, 'Just kidding!'"