Reply #9: PA...Middletown Township Wants Your Vote to Count

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Middletown Township Wants Your Vote to Count
There’s good news on the voter-verified paper ballot front.

Last night Middletown Township joined the honor roll of municipalities supporting the immediate passage of SB-977 and HB-2000, the two voter-verified paper ballot bills currently stalled in the PA General Assembly. Have you called your state legislatures to ask why those bills aren’t moving? Get contact information here.

Middletown, my new favorite township, even went one step further on the road to a secure election process and also adopted a resolution supporting the immediate passage of Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick’s HR 4666, which would extend the HAVA compliance deadline past the 2006 primary season. That bill is dying a horrible death in the House as I type. You can call Congressman Fitzpatrick to ask why that is.

More good news, this from the Inquirer:

In Bucks County, officials said they are holding off making a decision about replacing their lever machines until after the Supreme Court decision. Meanwhile, the Coalition for Voting Integrity, a group of voting rights activists, has been demonstrating this week outside the courthouse demanding that the commissioners choose a system with a voter-verified paper trail.
Don’t forget to stop by the People’s Filibuster happening outside the Doylestown Courthouse. It will be going on every weekday for the next two weeks from noon to 1pm. Come talk to members of the Coalition for Voting Integrity (members like me!) about electronic voting in Bucks County. You can help the County Commissioners decide to join twenty six states around the country in putting the voter back in the elections process by purchasing a voting system with a voter-verified paper ballot.

http://blogs.phillyburbs.com/blog.php?p=4459&cat=8
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