Hi, Folks,

I just received this email and thought my politically minded friends at Mudcat would be interested in the information. There is a House bill that needs support in order to get a printed ballot verification when voters use voting machines. My apologies if this info is already in another thread. Here is the email:

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Subject:
       HR 2239: Assuring Voting Machines Produce Voter Verified Printed
       Ballots
Date:
       Sun, 7 Sep 2003 23:32:00 EDT
Rep. Rush Holt of NJ--Congress' on PhD--has a proposed bill before Congress
to plug the hole in the Help America Vote Act by requiring that every
electronic voting machine produce a voter verified printed ballot. Make sure
your
congresspersons get on board in supporting this legislation.

To read the summary of the bill Holt has crafted in consultation with many of
the nation's best computer security specialists, go to:

http://holt.house.gov/issues2.cfm?id=5996

For further insight into the dangers of paperless electronic voting machines
go to:

http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html

http://www.ecotalk.org

http://www.verifiedvoting.org

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