[EM] HR811 and Federal paper trail legislation

[Kathy Dopp]

> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 00:01:51 -0400
> From: Chris Backert <cbackert at gmail.com>
> Subject: [EM] HR811 and Federal paper trail legislation
> To: <election-methods at electorama.com>
>
>
> The House will soon consider a bill introduced by Rep. Rush D. Holt (D-N.J.)
> that aims to make all ballots voter-verifiable and recountable and to set up
> a system for audits, or partial recounts, of ballots in every federal race.
> Those are important goals, especially given recent high-profile election
> foul-ups. But the bill's provisions are overly prescriptive and in some
> cases impossible to implement in their current form.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/20/AR200705200
> 1034.html> /wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/20/AR2007052001034.html
>
This WAPO article represents the position of election officials.

Election officials have gone on a concerted campaign to kill HR811 and
this editorial is one result.  Unfortunately BlackBoxVoting (whose
income is almost $1 Mill/year to continue the fight vs. election
problems) faxed thousands of election officials and urged them to
fight against the bill.

The bill is GREAT because it:

1. gets rid of all paperless DREs immediately

2. gets rid of DREs w/ paper rolls by 2010

3. requires the largest manual counts of paper ballots since the 1980s

4. requires the first-ever INDEPENDENT (not conducted by election
officials) manual audits of election results before unofficial results
are certified.

PLEASE take the time to read this paper which debunks some of the
disinformation that a small group of influential election activists
have been spreading re. HR811.  It is REALLY important to call
Congress about it because the Republican alternative that is supported
by virtually all election officials and voting machine vendor groups
requires "internal" audits by election officials, does not require ANY
paper ballots, does not replace any DREs, and so forth - bad bad bill.
 If we don't support HR811, no one will.

http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/FactsAboutHR811.pdf

-- 
Kathy Dopp

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Kathy Dopp's fact-finding and investigative efforts. Dopp is a
Mathematician, Expert in election audit mathematics and procedures; in
exit poll discrepancy analysis; and can be reached at

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Important Facts About The Voter Confidence & Increased Accessibility Act (HR811)
http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/FactsAboutHR811.pdf

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