Tomorrow night is Dean/DFA Meet Up.  One of the items on the agenda for this month is Verified Voting.  If you are a Meet Up host, here is some information you'll need.  Please forward this on to any Meet Up hosts you know.

Oh, and be sure to tell your Meet Up groups about Blog for Iowa and how to sign up for Democracy for Iowa.  Thanks!

Hi Democracy for America MeetUps,

As the new Executive Director of VerifiedVoting.org, I'm very excited that you all have decided to have a MeetUp to discuss how to make sure that people's votes are counted even with the new electronic voting machines that are popping up around the country.

VerifiedVoting.org is all about reliable and publicly verifiable elections… we've seen too many examples already of elections that have had irregularities and, in at least one case, had to be done over.  You can see examples of these problems here.

We're enlisting folks to take action all over the U.S. in the following ways:

– If you can make it to Washington, D.C., for any or all of April 23 – 28, join us for Verified Voting Lobby Days. Please email lobbydays@verifiedvoting.org with
the days you can attend. (We won't work on the weekend of the Women's March, just on the Friday before and Monday – Wednesday afterwards.)

– Call your Congressional representatives to urge them to support H.R. 2239 in the U.S. House of Representatives and S. 1980 in the U.S. Senate.

WHERE TO CALL: 800-839-5276 (the Capitol switchboard)

– Check out what's happening in your own state and contact state legislators as appropriate from here:

http://www.verifiedvoting.org/states.asp

– Sign up to receive our newsletter, to endorse a resolution on verified voting, or to volunteer at

http://www.verifiedvoting.org/joinus_step1.asp

– Donate funds toward this important cause at

https://www.verifiedvoting.org/Donate/

The right for every person's vote to count as cast is a fundamental cornerstone of our democratic system.

Let's make sure every vote counts as cast,

Will Doherty
Executive Director
VerifiedVoting.org and Verified Voting Foundation