Rod Smith launches election reform site in Fla!!!

[infogirl]

Please go to the site and sign the petition! He wrote the bill...after 04 for voter verified ballots! They killed it because it was a good bill, the one we needed!

He is a hero...and as Governor we will get our democracy back! Please pass all around the U.S. to sign the petition!

Thanks!
:hi:

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http://www.betterdemocracyflorida.com/

[ellenfl]

1. done eom

[alvarezadams]

2. He's given up on the Broncos?

B-)

[flpoljunkie]

3. Read SPTimes: "Candidate Launches Website to Seize on Election Issue"

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/26/State/Candidate_launches_We.shtml

Candidate launches Web site to seize on election issue

By ADAM C. SMITH, Times Political Editor

Published July 26, 2006

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rod Smith, eager to endear himself to party activists, is stepping up his calls to improve reliability and accessibility in Florida's election system.

<>There appears to be little difference on the election issues between Smith and his primary opponent, U.S. Rep. Jim Davis, who has twice co-sponsored federal legislation for paper trails on electronic voting machines. But the issue is a crowd pleaser and a matter of passionate interest among many Democratic activists who still talk about the disputed presidential election of 2000. Smith appears eager to attach himself to the cause.

"It's something Sen. Smith is showing some leadership on," Smith communications director David Kochman said. "Everywhere we talk about it, voters relate to it and react to it, because it goes to the fundamental nature of campaigns. Sen. Smith will continue to talk about it and it will be something that is a big part of the campaign."

Barbara Walters, a Democratic activist and Davis supporter in Miami, called Smith's emphasis on improving elections "politically expedient." Members of a Miami Democracy for America group talked to Smith about paper trails early last year, she said, and Smith dismissed the idea, saying it would go nowhere. He went on to sponsor a bill mandating paper trails that, sure enough, went nowhere.