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Thursday, November 11, 2004

Make your voice heard

Working for Change has set up an easy way you can email your Congresspeople on the issue of electronic voting machines.

1. The first one calls for an independent investigation by the Government Accountabilty Office on the efficacy of e-voting machines:

All in all, more than 30,000 complaints have been gathered from across the country, and the Internet is heating up with rumors and innuendo that the results of the election were somehow tampered with. In the midst of such turmoil, it's crucial that an independent authoritative investigation be undertaken to sort this all out.

Fortunately, a handful of representatives are working hard to get to the bottom of the situation and have urged the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to immediately investigate these charges. It's crucial that Congress continues to pressure the GAO so that these problems can be investigated and reported on to the American people to ensure that Americans' faith in the election process is maintained and strengthened.

Contact your Congressperson here.

2. The second one urges Congress to make meaningful election reform a priority in the November special session of Congress:

There are a few steps that should be taken immediately to reform our election systems, such as barring election officials from working on any partisan campaigns (a la Katherine Harris), establishing laws and strict penalties against voter suppression and intimidation; and ensuring accurate voting roll purges, free of racial or party bias.

Standardizing our election system across the entire nation will strengthen our democracy and will help to increase confidence in our elections. If we act now without the glare of an impending election, future elections can be free of the flaws of 2004.

Contact your Congresspeople here.

Both issues are important to our democracy. Please sign them and pass them along (easy to do by clicking the little envelope symbol below this post).

posted by chris at 7:06 PM
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