Nancy Pelosi - Still undecided on BBV Hr- 2239 Paper trail bill

[Room101]

Please call her office and knock some sense into her.
Capital switchboard (1 800 648 3516 ) ask for Nancy Pelosi and they will transfer you.

[DemNoir]

1. Hard to think clearly

When your stoned on Botox. She one of the weakest Dem "leaders" in years and thats saying alot.

[Politiclo8]

2. And she's supposed to be the Democrats' leader in the House?

Maybe we need to bring Geptheart (sic) back. Have the Repubs put something in Pelosi's water? Is she being blackmailed?
WTF?????????????????

[Some Moran]

6. I agree...

That broad even voted for the Patriot Act. The only thing standing between me and hatred right now is her position on Taiwan.

[newyawker99]

12. Hi Politiclo8!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[MidwestTransplant]

3. I emailed...

[e-mail]

[maggrwaggr]

8. I done e-mailed her. Thanks for the link.

nt

[cosmicdot]

4. what's her problem - there's nothing to deliberate - save our vote!

I emailed her FWIW ...

she has lots of investments (opensecrets.org)

is there a conflict of interest in her financial interests????

you're either for us or against us, Nancy ....

it's really simple .... common sense

[Nashyra]

5. Made the call

asking her support and ensure we have a paper trail in the election.

[Room101]

7. One last kick

Please call and have your voice heard !

[maggrwaggr]

9. needs another kick -- c'mon, everybody should e-mail her! Check in!

nt

[realFedUp]

10. ok

[shance]

11. I called on Monday about this. Thanks for the reminder for DUers to call!

I am pretty amazed that she would even be questioning this legislation. Another mind baffler. However, the more information we relay to friends and family, the more the word gets out. Send articles.

I just sent an article out to friends that Jim Hightower in October on electronic voting. Alot of people like Jim Hightower and respect him.

DUers need to call Pelosis office and their representatives and explain what they know to be the facts. Let them know this is NOT a bipartisan issue.

This is an issue that will effect everyones vote.

Hypothetically, electronic voting could allow a certain faction having ownership or controls over the results, to go with ONE candidate and no other candidates, that means any other Republicans or Democrats would have a chance in an election.

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. I emailed her

What EXACTLY is she "undecided" about? What? She doesn't want our votes to count? Oy Vey! Give me a freaking break. <sigh>

[shirlden]

14. My e-mail just sent

Dear Ms Pelosi,
You are obviously not paying attention to the news on electronic voting machines. There are thousands of the "little people" in the trenches fighting daily to secure our right to an honest vote and you have not come out in favor of the Holt Bill. I am a life long Democrat and I find this so unexceptable that it is beyond belief. The party is in need of a change of leadership and that includes loser Terry McAuliffe. Please help us take back our country or get out of the way.



Am I pissed?????? Oh Yeah !!

:argh:

[MessiahRp]

15. Mine was a bit more diplomatic...

Mrs. Pelosi,

I am writing you to urge you to support HR 2239, the Paper Trail Bill. As I am sure you are well aware, these voting machines offer no paper receipts for voters and are not only susceptible to hackers breaking in and changing data, but they are susceptible to a flawed program altogether that takes votes for any other candidate and gives them to Republicans. Considering that the makers of all of these voting machines are Republican donors that have even promised to deliver their states to the President it is understandable why people find these people less than objective and worry that their votes are not going to be counted correctly.

After the debacle in Florida in 2000 that robbed this country of it’s rightly elected President, all Democrats should be supporting this bill without haste.

Please support the bill and convince your colleagues to do the same. The future of this country is on the line here.

Sincerely,
Robert Poole, Jr.

[Andromeda]

24. That's a very good letter, Robert

:kick:

[MessiahRp]

26. LOL

Why thank you. :)

Rp

[ElsewheresDaughter]

16. it's the OD on BOTOX factor....it seems to have paralyzed her brain too!!!

[flpoljunkie]

17. Done.

Also emailed her yesterday's article in the Christian Science Monitor, called "A Better Ballot". Link below for those who have not yet read it. Very good article.

http://csmonitor.com/2003/1103/p11s02-uspo.html

[dusty64]

18. How could she possibly

be undecided on this?

[leesa]

19. "After all" she thinks to herself, "How could the Republicans win if we

didn't allow them to cheat?" Get these DINOS out of office!

[Octafish]

20. Agree it's important bill! Needs work, though.

Check out what the good folks at http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ say. The bill is good, but still needs work, otherwise it's a band-aid. BTW: I posted Holt's bill on LBN the second I saw it proposed a few months back. Today, my letter to Pelosi asked her to pass a modified version of the bill, based on the expert recommendations of academics, rather than the builders of the machines. — Octafish

EXCERPT...

Under this provision, electronic voting would still continue fully exposed to fraud, abuse and undetectable errors. The first problem with this proposed legislation is that it cleverly avoids any form of voter verifiable mechanism unless there is a manual recount of the printed paper records. Second and more importantly, a printed paper record does not verify that the machine counted the vote correctly. An electronic voting machine can be accidentally or deliberately programmed to record the vote differently than what it prints on the paper. To have a VERIFIABLE paper record the following minimal steps must be taken:

Each paper record must have a ballot number that uniquely identifies it at the precinct;
Each precinct must publicly post summaries of all votes cast for each candidate by ballot number once the polls close;
Each precinct must allow time for citizens to match their ballot number with the ballot the summaries if they desire;
The publicly posted precinct summaries must be totaled to show the number of votes cast for each candidate;
The summary totals must correspond to the final totals reported by the precinct for each candidate;
This type of verifiable audit trail provides a direct link from each ballot to the final reported totals for each candidate without revealing the identify of any voter. It could even be implemented without a paper record since the ballot number could be displayed for the voter to record and match against the summary totals rather than printed with costly, high maintenance printers.

CONTINUED...

http://www.verifiedvoting.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=44

[dusty64]

30. Kick!

:kick: These "leaders" need to get their heads outta their asses.

[Room101]

21. One last kick for Democracy

We can get 50 responses to a Rush Limbaugh pain killer thread, but this thread gets 20 responses is that not backwards?

[lostnfound]

22. I called -- a kick for another day of phone calls!

[PretzelzRule]

23. Sent my email

n/t

:kick:

[belle]

25. I'm going to call--what would you say?

I want it keep it short and sweet, but clear. Specifically, what have callers been recommending that she "decide?"

[Room101]

27. Some info... Tell her to support HR- 2239

http://holt.house.gov/issues2.cfm?id=5996

Tell her to support Rush Holts HR- 2239 "The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003"

The one leading the fight is BEV HARRIS, fast forward to min.five of this recent interview.
http://www.kpfa.org/cgi-bin/gen-mpegurl.m3u?server=209.81.10.18&port=80&mount=/data/20031104-Tue1700.mp3

Also check out these interviews
http://www.democracynow.org/search.pl?query=bev+harris

BEV HARRIS, web site
http://www.blackboxvoting.com

[slor]

28. There was a website...

that tracked where your state rep. stood on this issue. Many seemed to suggest that they were waiting to hear from their constituents. Piss poor excuse I agree, but that is what they said. I did not bookmark, but we need that reposted and sent to friends. They need to "hear" from us loud and clear!

[leftchick]

29. I will call her this morning!

thanks...