H.R. 811 is
a well-intended but deeply flawed bill that will do more harm than good to the cause of free and fair elections unless crucial
improvements are made. Can we count on you to help make it the bill we need it to be?
We need you and five of your friends and family to
make a call or send a fax to your Congressperson, telling him/her to vote NO on H.R. 811 until crucial improvements
are made.
Our minimum target number is 200 concerned citizens flooding
Congress's phones and faxes! We need your help to make this happen. Please let us know the results of your call by sending
an email to votingintegrity@aol.com
We need voter-marked paper ballots to ensure that our votes will be counted in 2008.
H.R. 811, the voting bill presently before Congress, will not ensure that this happens and contains many provisions that are
harmful.
For example: H.R. 811 permits printers to be added to touchscreen machines. In
Bucks
County alone that cost would reach nearly $2 million. Studies have shown that voters
do not check and often cannot find mistakes on these printouts so they are NOT a voter-verified paper record.
If these
printers are added, another device must be purchased to permit the paper printout to be read to the visually challenged, adding
another expense to enable the continued use of the flawed touchscreen machines.
H.R. 811
should be rewritten to permit only paper ballots that are truly voter-verified because the voter has marked the ballot him/herself.
These voter-marked paper ballots can be read by an optical scanner or hand-counted and saved for meaningful audits and recounts.
H.R. 811
should mandate that this voter-marked paper ballot is in place for the 2008 elections. H.R. 811 now allows the continued
use of some voting machines that do not have voter-marked paper ballots until 2010. H.R. 811 must fully fund this mandate
to change to voter-marked paper ballots by 2008.
Call or fax your Congressperson: No more wasted
money. Vote NO on H.R. 811 until crucial improvements are made.
Find your Congressperson's contact info here.
If you live in Bucks County, your Congressman is Rep. Patrick Murphy.
Rep. Murphy's Washington, DC, office phone (202)
225-4276, fax (202) 225-9511
Rep. Murphy's main district office phone (215) 348-1194, fax (215) 348-1449
If you live outside Bucks County, you can find your Congressperson's contact info here or by calling the Capitol Switchboard, (202)
225-3121 (not toll-free), and ask to be connected to your member of Congress.
