John Conyers - Come Blog with Me this Weekend

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Monday, July 18th, 2005

Rovegate/DSM House Party Excitement Growing

Come Blog with Me this Weekend

I want to thank everyone who is who has agreed to host or attend a neighborhood house party to commemorate the third anniversary of the Downing Street Minutes and help me get to the bottom of the growing Rovegate scandal.

This is an unprecedented nationwide and international event. Right now more than 230 have come to JohnConyers.com to set up their house parties, and more than 4,500 people have agreed to attend. Both numbers are growing by leaps and bounds every day. We have a house party scheduled at the North Pole (that is to say, North Pole, Alaska), and events set up in New Zealand, Italy, the Czech Republic and Australia. To join in and either host or attend an event near you, go to http://johnconyers.com/

We are setting up a nationwide conference call this Saturday, July 24 at 4 PM ET so I can brief all of the hosts on the latest events and plans. I will be joined by none other than Ambassador Joe Wilson and Air America host Randi Rhodes for this conference call.

We are also preparing packets for each and every host, to include a short video clip of the DSM/ Rovegate follies, as well as a series of supporting materials for guests concerning media outreach, legislative action, follow up events, background information and more.

Finally, I am rearranging my campaign blog so that over the weekend all hosts will be able to post entries and receive comments concerning their events. This will allow us to disseminate the information and sentiment at each event to each other and the world. Again, this is unprecedented, and will permit us to take the issue of the ongoing deception in Iraq to the next level.

I will post more information on this blog as I receive it.


Blogged by JC on 07.18.05 @ 11:16 PM ET

There are more issues to be concerned about than preserving physical evidence of the vote (so that it may be investigated), and I'd like to see those addressed.

S.17
Voting Opportunity and Technology Enhancement Rights Act of 2005

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:3:./temp/~c109SAES23::


S. 17
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to protect voting rights and to improve the administration of Federal elections, and for other purposes.


IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

January 24, 2005
Mr. DODD (for himself, Ms. MIKULSKI, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. ROCKEFELLER, and Mr. SCHUMER) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration



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A BILL
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to protect voting rights and to improve the administration of Federal elections, and for other purposes.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

(a) Short Title- This Act may be cited as the `Voting Opportunity and Technology Enhancement Rights Act of 2005'.

(b) Table of Contents- The table of contents of this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

Sec. 2. Findings and purposes.

Sec. 3. National Federal write-in absentee ballot.

Sec. 4. Voter verified ballots.

Sec. 5. Requirements for counting provisional ballots.

Sec. 6. Minimum required voting systems and poll workers in polling places.

Sec. 7. Election day registration.

Sec. 8. Integrity of voter registration list.

Sec. 9. Early voting.

Sec. 10. Acceleration of study on election day as a public holiday.

Sec. 11. Improvements to voting systems.

Sec. 12. Voter registration.

Sec. 13. Establishing voter identification.

Sec. 14. Impartial administration of elections.

Sec. 15. Strengthening the election assistance commission.

Sec. 16. Authorization of appropriations.

Sec. 17. Effective date.

This came up as a top-level thread twice and I commented on both its instances.