What You Can Do To Ensure Reliable Elections in Iowa? (blogforiowa.com)

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What You Can Do To Ensure Reliable Elections in Iowa
by Trish Nelson on Mon 13 Feb 2006 04:00 AM CST
http://www.blogforiowa.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/13/1757259.html

OpEdNews

Last Thursday, Blog for Iowa asked you to contact your state representatives in Des Moines to demand verifiable elections in Iowa (http://www.blogforiowa.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/9/1752045.html). Today, we are asking Blog for Iowa readers to help pass HR 550 in Washington. Please pass this on to everyone you know, regardless of party affiliation or (non-affiliation), who think Democracy is a good thing. There are 161 co-sponsors (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR00550:@@@P) to date, none so far from the great state of Iowa! Let’s get after the people who are supposed to be representing us to co-sponsor this bill that will ensure Democracy lives to see another election.

PASS H.R. 550 / VOTER VERIFIED PAPER BALLOTS
By Allen L. Roland, PhD

One bill - H.R. 550 - could be the most important bill your Representative co-sponsors this year.

The "Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act" (H.R.550) is the "gold standard" of voter verifiability legislation, requiring not only voter-verified paper records but also mandatory manual audits to confirm that voting machines are working properly.

The voter-verified paper record is the "bottom line" ~ without it we can't have reliable elections. This bill continues to gain momentum, with 156 Republican and Democrat co-sponsors to date, but more co-sponsors are needed. More than half of the states already have enacted voter-verified paper record requirements, but to protect all votes we need this bill.

You can help: please make sure your Representative co-sponsors H.R. 550 immediately (http://www.usalone.net/cgi-bin/oen.cgi?qnum=160).

Take action - click here to contact your local newspaper or congress people (http://www.usalone.net/cgi-bin/oen.cgi?qnum=160).

Click here for the story at OpEdNews (http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_allen_l__060209_pass_hr_550_3a__voter_.htm)

Click here (http://www.blogforiowa.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/13/%20the%20non-partisan%20blog,%20Iowa%20Voters%20for%20Open%20and%20Transparent%20Elections) to check out a great new non-partisan blog, Iowa Voters for Open and Transparent Elections (http://www.iowavoters.org/)

Click here for more information. (http://www.blogforiowa.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/10/1753498.html)

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1. My email to Leach

(of course he has to check with Tom DeLay first)
Mr. Leach,
I have just heard of a bill, HR 550, which will take a long stride toward ensuring that elections are not possibly stolen. I feel this is action that is ABSOLUTELY needed for our democracy to continue.
In recent years there have been many alegations, particularly in Florida and Ohio, that elections were suspect. There was even one district where more people voted than were eligible.
The very fabric of the country will crumble if our election process is suspect.
Therefore I urge you to add your name to HR 550 as a sponsor. To not do so would call into question the integrity that you campaign on.