U.S. Congress - Elections

Hope and pray that Congressmen will co-sponsor HR 5036:

• Will provide opt-in funds to protect the 2008 election for counties that
replace paperless electronic voting machines with voter-verified paper
ballots. Several Pennsylvania counties that have already changed to paper-based
voting would benefit from these funds, and more counties have said they would
participate if these funds become available.

• Will pay for a variety of solutions including optical scan voting systems,
audits, or even full hand counts of paper ballots.

• Will provide emergency paper ballots for use in the event of problems on
election day for counties that stay on paperless machines.

• This bill is not a mandate. All of this is totally opt-in, only for
counties that choose to participate.

Again, please make your calls and faxes today, and very early Wednesday
morning.

Please be aware that you may hear rumors over the next day or so that this
bill has been weakened in the markup process. It is true that some changes are
being made, and we would have preferred the bill be sent on to the full House
as it was introduced, but we believe the basic provisions of HR 5036 remain
worthy of strong support. States with unverifable voting systems face deep
trouble should anything go wrong for this huge 2008 election.

Bottom line — we need this bill, and every Congressperson should be on it
as a cosponsor and to to sign on to HR 5036

Thanyou…Carmon Elliott…>>15205-2247