Last Chance For Verfied Voting: One More Week till HR2239 Is Dead

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Last Chance For Verfied Voting: One More Week till HR2239 Is Dead

This is really down to the wire: unless verified voting legislation HR2239 gets out of committee by 7/26, federal verified voting is dead! If you care about making sure your vote counts this November this is what you can do (last chance)!


1.Urgent: Without Congressman Ney getting it out of committee, no federal verified voting legislation will pass Please send free fax through your email (see below for free fax through email info--really easy!)
2.Update on Senate bills and
3.more you can do on national and local (scroll down for local) level http://www.legitgov.org/action_papertrail_071404.html
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1.The big organizations have finally taken up verified voting legislation. They have asked that you call your Congressperson about HR2239. There is only one huge problem.

Congressman Ney is blocking this legislation from coming to a vote. No vote, no legislation. And we only have until the 7/26! I have sent all the Ohio contacts I have info about this and asked them to make an effort to try to get his constituents to contact him. But as head of the administration committee--where HR2239 and HR4250 are trapped--anyone can and should contact him!

Tell him to allow a vote for HR2239--the verified voting bill--and HR4250--the bill that would allow those mistakenly put on a felon list (and therefore disenfranchised) to be notified and have 30 days to object--right away!

You can send a free fax through your email, just put this address (copy entire address with control C, control V) in your email address and make sure that it goes through (they will tell you if its busy and send it 3 times in a row and then stop). If not try again later.
remote-printer.bob_ney/[e-mail]

Other Contact info Phone: [phone] | Fax: [phone] Email (which is not as effective as calls and faxes but still counts) [e-mail].

2.You should also ask your Congressperson to co-sponsor HR2239 and HR4250. Call 1-800-839-5276 and Go to http://Congress.org for fax info. and email (which is not as effective as calls and faxes but still counts)



3.In the Senate the best verified voting bill is S.1980--the identical bill to HR2239. However, the author of S.1980, Bob Graham (Fl) has also co-sponsored another verified voting bill which is also co-sponsored by Hillary Clinton (NY) which has a giant loophole: a state waiver provision written so broadly that voting machines it was designed to cover may get exempted. The problem is that so far every person co-sponsoring S.1980 is also automatically co-sponsoring the bill with the giant loophole (S.2313). One the thing you can do is ask your Senator to co-sponsor S.1980 but not 2313--unless the state waiver provision eliminated or narrowed to just refer to lever machines (its actual intent).

Moveon.org's solution is to ask you to ask your Senator to co-sponsor S.2437. They are reasoning that besides the complications of the other bills, this bill might be passed more easily in Republican Congress (although so far the Republicans have not supported it and Hillary's bill has the most co-sponsors, followed by S.1980). The biggest problem with the Republican bill is it doesn't take effect until 2006 but they're hoping that this means states won't buy machines without paper if it passes. When a bill in Ohio passed which also didn't take effect until 2006, some counties just rented the machines instead of buying them, also some already bought them. The Graham bill (or Hillary's if she fixes state waiver problem) would have states just use paper ballot this election if they couldn't upgrade existing machines in time.

You can actually ask your Senator to co-sponsor both S.1980 and S.2437 (but not S.2313--unless waiver provision is eliminated or narrowed to lever machines, its original intent). Call 1-800-839-5276 and Go to http://Congress.org for fax info. and email (which is not as effective as calls and faxes but still counts)

4. For more actions on both the federal and local (scroll down a bit for local) level see http://www.legitgov.org/action_papertrail_071404.html

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