black box voting The RECORD Act in the Senate

[Eric J in MN]

For people who want electronic voting machines to print paper balltots, there is a new bill in the Senate we can support.

"The RECORD Act of 2004," bill number S.2313, requires paper ballots. It states that paper ballots are the official record of election results.

It is similar to another good bill, "The Voter Confidence Act," bill number S.1980.

But The Record Act has more cosponsors, and I encourage activiists to support "The Record Act" in the Senate for that reason.

Cosponsors include Hillary Clinton (NY) and Barbara Boxer (CA), who previously introduced other bills on this subject. Other cosponsors of the RECORD Act include Charles Schumer (NY), Ernest Hollings (SC), Frank Lautenberg (NJ), and Blanche Lincoln (AR).

If you don't live in New York or Florida, where both Senators are already cosponsors, please ask your Senators to become cosponsors.

Dial 1-800-839-5276 (Capital Switchboard) and ask to be transferred to the office of one of your Senators.

Then you could say, for example, "I'd liike to leave a message for the Senator to please cosponsor "The RECORD Act," bill number S. 2313, to improve the accuracy of our elections."

By the way, if you are unfamilliar with why many people want electronic voting machines to print paper balltots, the concern is that if the machines count the votes wrong, there will be now way to do a meaningful recount, without paper ballots.

http://www.moveleft.com/moveleft_essay_2004_04_26_the_record_act.asp

[redqueen]

1. I don't know why this bill is better than Graham's

Until I understand exactly how it's different (besides just having more co-sponsors) then I won't support it.