"Computer Ate My Vote" Day of Action—July 13

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A press conference/rally will be held in Austin, TX, on Tuesday,
July 13, in conjunction with the nationwide "Computer Ate My Vote"
Day of Action. A national coalition of groups, including Democracy
for America, Common Cause, MoveOn, TrueMajority, Working Assets,
VerifiedVoting.org, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility, and National Committee for
Voting Integrity, is encouraging election officials to use their
authority to require computerized voting machines to produce paper
records, which can be verified by voters and kept for audits and
dispute resolution.

A joint petition of signatures in support of this issue will be
presented at this event. More details to come.

Time: 11 am

Place: Speaker's Committee Room, 2nd floor, Room 2W.6, State Capitol
building, Austin, TX

Speakers (confirmed, more to be announced):
• Rep. Elliott Naishtat, Texas State Representative District 49 and
long-time champion of people's causes
• Dr. Dan Wallach, Rice University computer scientist and electronic
voting expert



Time: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 11:00am
Length: 1:00

For those unfamiliar with the Capitol, the Speaker's Committee Room is located just to the right of the main entryway into the House Chamber (second floor, west end).

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1. It's great,

except it's on a Tuesday, and I'm in Dallas.

:-(

[sonias]

2. Bev Harris and Andy Stephenson will speak at this event

TX DUers

We just found out last night at the Austin DFT meeting that Bev Harris and Andy Stephenson will be headlining this event. This is a wonderful chance to thank them for the extremely hard work that they have been doing at www.BlackBoxVoting.org

I know it's a weekday time, but this may be one of the few times you get to see them in Texas. Plus these are good DU folks and we have to give them a big welcome.

And as a reminder there is a social gathering this Saturday (July 10th) at Mother Egan's at 7:00 p.m.

Sonia