Please call the offices of your Senators and Congressperson, and ask the staffers to attend the June 22 speech by Congressman Rush Holt (details below).
You can reach any office of a Senator or Representative by dialing:
1-800-839-5276 (Capitol Switchboard)
and asking to be transferred.
You can tell them they can read about the event by going to verifiedvoting.org and clicking on the top-right.
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http://www.verifiedvoting.org/article.asp?id=2441 VerifiedVoting.org Action Alert
Join Us June 22 in D.C. for Voter-Verified Paper Ballot Rally
Dear Friends of Verified Voting:
Thank you for all the support you've given in order to ensure that we have reliable and publicly verifiable election systems.
This Tuesday, June 22, you can take another important action. Please join New Jersey Rep. Rush Holt, other members of Congress, nationwide organizers from VerifiedVoting.org, MoveOn, TrueMajority.org, and other election reform advocates at a rally in Washington, D.C., to support Voter-Verified Paper Ballots (VVPBs).
National Rally for Voter Verified Paper Ballots
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
11:45am to 1:00pm
Cannon Terrace, just south of the U.S. Capitol,
between Cannon and Longworth House Office Buildings
(At the corner of New Jersey and Independence)
Nearest Metro station: Capitol South
The decisions Congress makes in the next month will determine what voting systems many Americans will use this November and for years to come. Americans should not have to vote on paperless touchscreen machines that have malfunctioned and are vulnerable to malicious hacking.
Rep. Holt's HR2239, the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003, would require e-voting machines to include a VVPB by Novemberor to provide a paper ballot alternative if states can't retrofit the machines with a paper trail by then. This important bill already has 141 co-sponsors, but is stuck in committee.
Show up and be heard: tell Congress to break the logjam so HR2239 and other VVPB legislation can come to a vote and pass. Let's tell Congress that we want to know for sure that our votes count.
Please join us on Tuesday.
If you can come to the rally, send email to pam@verifiedvoting.org to let us know how many of you are attending.
Thank you for all you do!
Pamela Smith
Nationwide Coordinator
VerifiedVoting.org and Verified Voting Foundation
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