The DU must support Rush!!!!!

Congressman Rush Holt that is, and his bill, H.R. 2239, calling for A VOTER VERIFIED PAPER TRAIL FOR EVERY VOTE CAST!!!

Contact YOUR Congress Critters now - urging them to support this crucial act - perhaps the last chance for restoring/preserving Democracy in America!!!

http://holt.house.gov/issues2.cfm?id=5996

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I will call or e-mail!

Is it additional costs or what can they possibly use as their excuse to hide the ballots? I just wonder why anyone would oppose this bill.

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Here's whatI can see as potential arguments against the "paper trail" idea:

1) The whole idea is to STREAMLINE the voting process, not bog it down. Having to track paper, print out receipts/manage the printers, ballot boxes for the precinct receipts, more hardware, making things more complicated, blah blah blah.

2) It's an added expense to the already expensive voting machines. Hardware, paper, more election supervisors, etc.

3) Who wants a "receipt" of their voting anyway? People will just lose it, right?

I could think of more, but I have to get back to work.

I should say - 1) all the above reasons are pure crap and lazy to boot, and 2) I think, as a check against the voting machines themselves, that there should be a random lottery drawing of unique ballot identifier numbers printed in the local paper the day after elections, and everybody on that list would be required to present their receipt of their voting to check against both the electronic record and the paper record kept by the precincts. Democracy takes work, even here.

CS

People may find out we can't win an election honestly.

Still working on making sense of it? Or might this cause "irreparable harm" to the legitimacy of several of these "elected" officials??

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sent letters to Leach (house rep. R) and Harkin and Grassley.

Sent this:

Hello.

Thank you for your service to my district.

I'm writing to you today to urge you to support Congressman Rush Holt's bill, H.R. 2239, calling for A VOTER VERIFIED PAPER TRAIL FOR EVERY VOTE CAST.

I believe this issue to be the most important issue before the nation today.

It is the foundation of Democracy.

Without confidence in the voting system citizens of the US will see our very system of government as illigitimate and fraudulent.

Thank you for your support on this bill.

Sincerely,