PA and Bucks County Voting Crisis

Media Advisory

CVI to Hold Press Conference August 19, 2006, Following Gov. Rendell's Appearance at the Middletown Grange Fair

“High Risk for Compromised Elections”

Contact information:

Mary Ann Gould

Coalition for Voting Integrity

votingintegrity@aol.com

(h) 215.357.5206

Doylestown - The Coalition for Voting Integrity will hold a press conference immediately following Governor Rendell's appearance at the Grange Fair, Saturday, August 19, in TENT D.

Topics addressed will include the following:

Pennsylvania Issues

Nearly all PA voters, including those in Bucks County, will be voting on machines that are illegal or not useable in 35 states.

Both parties asking for recount funding clarification, though in all but nine small PA counties, a recount independent of the voting machine is impossible, rendering recounts meaningless.

Is Pennsylvania the next Florida?

Legislation:

Crucial new bill, SB 1299, will be the legislation to bring PA some security in time for November. SB1299 will allow all PA voters to have the right to choose to vote on paper in November.

CVI will call for both parties to demonstrate leadership on this issue and to work for the immediate passage of SB1299 and its companion bill.

Legal Actions:

CVI’s existing suit under negotiation, now being updated.

New suit just announced last week, signed by members of CVI from five counties. Being handled by Biddle, Drinker and Reath, Atty. Lowell Finley, Atty. Marian K. Schneider and Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia.

Bucks County Questions:

Why are we buying used machines? What do they cost?

Why are we not dealing with Danaher directly and instead buying from/dealing with Electec of New Jersey? Who are they?

Misleading information being disseminated in County voter education literature.

What are the real costs and repercussions of any changes to a secure, voter-verified system?

WHAT: CVI press conference to address pressing issues and new developments

WHERE: Middletown Grange Fair, Tent D

WHEN: SATURDAY, August 19, immediately following Gov. Rendell's appearance at the fair.