DontBlockMyVote.org: Bush Administration Slowing Equal Access

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 14, 2004

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DontBlockMyVote.org: Bush Administration Slowing Equal Access to Polls; 75 Percent of All Counties to Use Same Voting Machines They Used in 2000

WASHINGTON - September 14 - With the Presidential election less than 50 days away, the Bush Administration and Congress have failed to back up the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) with adequate funding, further delaying equal access to the polls for millions of Americans with disabilities.

So far, more than 10,000 letters have been sent to Congress asking lawmakers to fully fund HAVA, heeding the call of the United Cerebral Palsy DontBlockMyVote.org campaign.

DontBlockMyVote.org now is urging supporters to directly call on the Bush Administration to back $650 million in the FY 2005 budget for the implementation of HAVA, not a dollar more than the law itself authorizes.

President Bush only requested $65 million for HAVA for 2005, just 10 percent of the funds authorized. States simply will not implement the law without the resources promised by the federal government and 75 percent of all counties in the United States will be using the same voting machines they used in the controversial 2000 election.

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