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ASK CONGRESS TO AMEND HR 811!



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CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND TELL THEM TO AMEND HR 811!



In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the poll tax to be
unconstitutional.

The purchase of electronic voting machines is like the poll tax, but it
requires that voters pay to be disenfranchised, rather than paying to vote.

Election after election, thousands of reports show that Direct Record
Electronic (DRE, touch-screen) voting machines are disenfranchising hundreds of thousands
of voters across the country. Voters are confused over how to use them. They
stand in line for hours because the machines are broken down, or they leave
because they don't have time to wait. Poll workers, even with careful
training, don't know how to help when something goes wrong, and something
often does.

When all seems to go well, there is still serious doubt whether their votes
are counted correctly. The fact is, sometimes they haven't been counted at
all.

Study after study shows that adding a voter-verified paper trail to DREs
simply adds more bells and whistles to a fundamentally flawed technology,
requiring taxpayers to pay even more for their own disenfranchisement.

It's time for Congress to stop States from violating the civil rights of
American voters. It's time for Congress to put a stop to the use of disenfranchising DREs.

Email your Representative and insist that they amend Representative Ho lt's
bill, HR 811, to ban DREs from use in the United States and to require real
paper ballots, marked by the voter or by a non-tabulating ballot-marking
device, in every federal election.

We have teamed up with our affiliate Progressive Democrats of America ,
and we have an online form to contact your Representative all ready to go!
Just fill it out and click "Send Message".



Here is the full URL:

http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/alert/?alertid=9406781&type=CO

(Copy and paste into your Internet browser's address window)

As your constituent and a regular voter, I urge you to offer or support an amendment to HR811 that will ban DREs and require paper ballots -- which are actually tabulated -- as the official ballot in elections in order to preserve integrity in our electoral process.

Thanks!
VR

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