Verified Voting hearing in Senate NOW

[TayTay]

Get it here: http://www.capitolhearings.org /

10 a.m.
Rules and Administration
To hold hearings to examine the issue of voter verification in the Federal elections process.

A totally unpublicized hearing. It has been stuffed with folks against a paper trail.

Thanks to DKos Diary
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/21/10245/1805

[redqueen]

1. Time to start calling.

877-762-8762.

Voter verified paper ballots. NOW.

[LightningFlash]

2. Keep this topic updated with current events.

Anyone else keeping on top of this feel free to add.

[mom cat]

3. Who to write to:

Here's Who to Write to. (none / 0)(From the daily kos)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/21/10245/1805

i just pestered DC Pol Sci with a request to update with the members for those of us a little less aware, but thought i'd jump the gun and do here. here's who to contact on this committee to make your thoughts known.
United States Senate
Committee on Rules and Administration Members

Republicans:
Chairman, Trent Lott, MS
Ted Stevens
Mitch McConnell
Thad Cochran
Rick Santorum
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Bill Frist
C. Saxby Chambliss
Robert Bennett
Chuck Hagel

Democrats:
Ranking Member, Chris Dodd, CT
Robert C. Byrd
Daniel K. Inouye
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Mark Dayton
Richard J. Durbin
E. Benjamin Nelson

Susan Wells, Staff Director
Kennie L. Gill, Democratic Staff Director and Chief Counsel

[sunnystarr]

4. Now THIS really makes me PUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Update on your dkos link:

Update <2005-6-21 11:29:49 by DC Pol Sci>: You want to know the *real* kicker? *Dodd* is against a voter-verified paper audit trail. Why? Well, he wrote what became HAVA, and he says that it's not necessary; that HAVA itself requires enough accountability. Guess ol' Chris is committed to our being in the minority for the foreseeable future...

Dodd doesn't know the problems with HAVA??????? WHERE HAS HE BEEN????? I am soooooooo FURIOUS I can't type anymore!!

[Bill Bored]

5. Yes Dodd has been a miserable failure on this issue.

He wants multimedia ballots that can't be checked except by trusting the same software that creates them! He does NOT get it.

Since he's supposed to be on OUR side (Democrats) he should be a main target of your calls and letters. I did not know he was the ranking member of this committee. NOT GOOD.

This is why the simple bill put forth by Senators Ensign (R) and Reid (D), to require the paper, would be a step in the right direction, despite its lack of auditing, etc.

Meanwhile take this to the states, counties and municipalities! They have the real power when it comes to elections anyway.

But blast these thugs in Congress too, just so they know that we know what they're up to. It's a national disgrace.

[I Have A Dream]

6. Kick

:kick:

[JunkYardDogg]

7. L.A. RoV, Conny Dearest Testifies Against AVVPAT

Our Close friend, Conny Dearest, Testified AGAINST AVVPAT
Note that Ted the Constitution Killer Stevens is on that Panel
The guy who never met a Constitutional Right he didn't want to kill
Conny Dearest is OH SO Concerned with the rights of the Voters
She made us sign a Non Disclosure Form just to view the Proposed Precinct Ballot Recorder,
She stopped the ES &S Venders from showing us the Wireless Modem
She called the Sheriffs Deputies upstairs to escort us out of the 7th Floor Lobby when the meeting was over
She had her husband summon the SoS Security Guards to try to coerce Joan Quinn to stop talking at the Calif SoS VSPP Diebold Certification Hearing
YUP
That is the Same Conny Dearest
The person from the Disabilities Group Doesn't want AVVPAT
'course they got Diebold Money donations-Wonder if there is a connection
The Disability Group Filed a Court case in Calif to get SoS Shelley's Decertification of Diebold overturned, the Court ruled in Shelley's favor
see:
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/legal/california/benavidez/
and:
http://caag.state.ca.us/newsalerts/2004/04-130.pdf
and
http://www.cacd.uscourts.gov/CACD/RecentPubOp.nsf/0/7b5a208aba8ff2a888256ecb005e7ff3/$FILE/CV04-1526FMC.pdf

The court case is in one of these links
AND we are supposed to support the Disabled Voting Access?
I guess their Disabilities trump Secure Election Integrity

[Stevepol]

8. Anybody know Dodd's email address?

[Stevepol]

9. Here's a link just a little further on. Looks like it's already over!

http://rules.senate.gov/hearings/hearing_schedule.htm

[Califooyah Operative]

10. recommended, and will make calls, this is important. nt

[snot]

11. KICK nt