CRITICAL ALERT: Stop Feinstein's Black Box on a Black Box Bill S3212

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

CRITICAL - TIME SENSITIVE - MAY BE MOST IMPT ACTION YOU CAN TAKE:

We need your help today to make sure that Congress does not reverse the nation's progress toward voter-verified paper ballots. It is not an exaggeration to say this could be one of the most important actions you ever take on the issue of verified voting. After you take action, please forward this message to your friends.

Here is what's happening. This Wednesday, the U.S. Senate will hold hearings on S.3212, a bill aimed at providing independent verification of ballots cast on electronic voting machines. That's a laudable goal, but S.3212 gets it wrong - very wrong.

S.3212 would allow electronic "verification" of votes cast on electronic voting machines. If S.3212 becomes law, elections in many states would still depend on the trustworthiness of computer software. This bill also fails to require hand audits of federal election results, and contains other measures that could set back years of progress toward transparent and trustworthy elections.

Click here to tell your Senators to oppose S.3212.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/199/t/6122/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25256

Senator Feinstein and Senator Bennett are the chair and ranking member of the committee that oversees federal election law, so this bill could become law one day - unless Senators hear a clear message that it is not acceptable. Even if S.3212 does not advance in this Congress, Senator Feinstein and Senator Bennett may see it as the starting point for legislation in 2009. They need to hear from you now in order to make sure that future federal legislation advances, rather than reverses, progress toward verified voting.

We have made too much progress to let this bill become law. Most states have taken steps to require verifiable voting systems, but a number have not. S.3212 could leave millions dependent on paperless electronic voting for the foreseeable future. With your help, we can prevent this bill from moving forward, and continue the progress we have made toward real verification of our elections.

Please act today, and forward this message on to your friends! Thank you for all you do.

Best regards,

The Team at Verified Voting

P.S. Your support is needed; please consider donating to VerifiedVoting.org, our 501c4 lobbying organization (non-tax-deductible) or to Verified Voting Foundation (tax-deductible). Donations to VerifiedVoting.org, while not tax-deductible, are where your contribution can help most in the fight against S.3212.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/199/t/6122/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25256

[postulater]

1. Done,

Thanks.

[silverweb]

2. Done.

:kick:

[IndyOp]

3. Done! Thank you. (n/t)

[Triana]

4. K & R and done...

Why did DiFi bother with this piece of shit legislation? Just to make it LOOK like they're doing something?

I have a brilliant idea for DiFi. DO SOMETHING - besides make a PRETENSE of it.

[Wilms]

5. Scanning the bill was a bit creepy.

Did I read it right that most of the good stuff was along of voluntary guidelines and the like...nothing with teeth?

Good on Verified Voting for thinking this through.

Who knows, they might even reconsider their opposition to lever machines which aren't the cause of or subject to much of the trouble this bill aims to fix. :shrug:

[halobeam]

6. done. kick. recommended

[Metta]

7. done.

Thanks.

[bbgrunt]

8. k and r!

[vanboggie]

9. Done, k&r and thanks n/t

[MsLeopard]

10. Done

Feinstein is the worst pretend Democrat around, and I've had to suffer with her in CA for more years than I care to count.

[barbtries]

11. ok i did n/t

[Joanne98]

12. Done

[Bill Bored]

13. kick! nt

[Wilms]

14. Senate Daily Digest

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Daily Digest

Senate

Committee Meetings

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S . 3212 , to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to provide for auditable, independent verification of ballots, to ensure the security of voting systems, after receiving testimony from

Todd Rokita, Indiana Secretary of State, Indianapolis, on behalf of the National Association of Secretaries of State;

Barbara R. Arnwine, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Jim Dickson, American Association of People with Disabilities, both of Washington, D.C.;

Juan E. Gilbert, Auburn University Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn, Alabama; and Doug Lewis, National Association of Election Officials--The Election Center, Houston, Texas.


Here's the link that won't work as it results from a site search thing.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r110:5:./temp/~r110ZE0QsM::