Action alert for CA voters! Terminate Arnold's agenda!
3-16-05
http://www.contestthevote.org/Stop Arnold From Holding An Expensive, Unnecessary, Unverifiable, Special Election!
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California residents: do you want your vote to count? Do you know that, if a Special Election is held in 2005, your vote could be lost or stolen by electronic means that would leave not a trace? Yes, Arnold’s boondoggle of an election would not only cost $70 million dollars--the most distressing fact is that voting in 2005 would take place on the outmoded paperless and non-voter verified electronic voting machines.
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Governor skirting election law
An election held early, in 2005, is much less secure than one held in 2006. A November, 2005 election would circumvent the bill passed last September by the California legislature requiring that all direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines include an accessible voter verified paper audit trail as of January, 2006. Holding a special election in 2005, before this requirement takes effect, clearly invites chaos and lack of voter confidence in the election result.
Why is Ahnold so intent on holding an election seven months prior to the regularly scheduled, more secure, June 2006 primary? Word is, he wants to circumvent yet another law, one that makes it illegal for him to raise and spend money for his initiatives closer to the time when he’s a declared candidate. Supposedly, he wants new statewide redistricting, but the timeline is so short for that, its feasibility is suspect. After all, candidates need to file their papers in early 2006, but can’t if they don’t know whether they still live in their district.
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Write this Special Election out of existence
There are many excellent reasons to Stop this Special Election. We need to make it clear to the Governor, and the media, that California voters do not want an expensive, unnecessary, unverifiable, and potentially chaotic statewide election in November 2005. We can wait until the regularly scheduled election in 2006, when a voter verified paper audit trail will be required for all direct recording electronic machines.
We need to get everyone we know to sign this petition to Schwarzenegger demanding he drop his wrong-headed idea of forcing a special election upon us. Polls show that support for the election falls when people know how much it costs. Add to that the mystery of what could happen to our votes, and support will dwindle even more.
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Timelines and deadlines
How much time do we have to publicize these issues and gain signatures? The Governor can call a Special Election as soon as one initiative completely qualifies—probably about the beginning of May. (By statute, he has until June to call a November election.)
Concerned Californians: sign on. Contact your friends. Let’s let the Governor know we oppose a special election set up for his Special Interests. It’s time for him to realize he doesn’t own California. The state belongs not to Arnold, but to us, the people of California.
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