Reply #1: VoteTrustUSA : Pass HR 550 As Written!

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Pass HR 550 As Written!

By VoteTrustUSA

September 23, 2005

Send an email to your Representative and to the House Administration Committee urging them to pass HR 550 as written!

The recently-released report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform called on congress to establish a requirement for a voter verified paper record of every vote and mandatory audits. VoteTrustUSA hopes you will join us in using the Commission’s recommendations as a catalyst for speedy enactment of Rep. Rush Holt’s Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act (HR 550) which organizations like VerifiedVoting, Common Cause, Working Assets, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Velvet Revolution, and many other national and state election integrity groups have been advocating for more than two years. In so doing, the forces of democracy can score an early and important win moving into the battle to prevent massive voter disenfranchisement.

The Commission recommended that Congress require a voter verified paper ballot for every vote and routine random audits to check the accuracy of vote counts in federal elections. However the report went on to recommend that the status of the voter verified paper ballot should be determined by states rather than mandated as the ballot of record nationwide. This means that any state can decide to disregard the only record that the voter has confirmed in favor of the “vapor trail” record inside the voting machine and make the voter verified paper ballot a meaningless and expensive placebo.

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http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=163&Itemid=103


Petition

http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=VTUSA&hotissue=1


Thanks to Eric J in MN for posting

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x396309