HR 811: This Week is Crucial to a Verifiable 2008 Vote!

Dear Friends,

HR 811, the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act, is very close to a vote, but Congress needs to hear from you today
to ensure that the vote is not delayed any longer. We need
voter-verified paper records and random mandatory audits by 2008! Many
have contacted their Congressmen on this bill; one more push is needed.
Please act, and pass this on.

Passage of the bill is not guaranteed.
Election officials who are weary of making changes before 2008 are
lobbying against the bill.  We respect the pressures that election
officials work under, but a drumbeat of security reports by computer scientists show that paperless voting in another Presidential election is risky and foolish.  As Stanford University computer scientist David Dill wrote of HR 811, “it's time to outlaw paperless electronic voting in the U.S.”

States have proven that changes in voting equipment can be made in a year or less. Florida is converting to paper ballots statewide in time for the 2008 primaries.  New Mexico, and North Carolina implemented major equipment changes in a matter of months.  Iowa is planning to implement a paper trail by 2008, but we depend on the nation at large, and too many states will not have a paper trail by 2008, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia among them. Most important, the concerns of election officials have been heard, and the 2008 deadline will apply only to areas that have no voter-verified paper trail at all.

Contact your Congressman and call on him to support HR 811, the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act.   Tell him we are a can-do nation and able to end paperless, unverifiable voting in over a year!

Call the House switchboard at 202-224-3121
and ask to be connected to your Representative's office. Or click any
of the Representative's names below for other contact information.

Congressmen Bruce Braley, Leonard Boswell, and Dave Loebsack are cosponsors. Thank them for their support and tell them to keep the pressure on.

Even though they are cosponsors, they need to hear from you! 

If you live in Tom Latham's or Steve King's districts, tell them to join Republicans Frank Wolf of Virginia, Darrell Issa of California, and Greg Walden of Oregon and get on board!

Thank you – again- for your support of verifiable elections.

Best regards,
Sean Flaherty
Co-Chair, Iowans for Voting Integrity
www.IowansForVotingIntegrity.org