We need to repair the vote now

[Neil D]

Hi,

After the last two presidential elections, it's incredibly important to repair our election system. We need to guarantee paper printouts for electronic voting machines, cut long lines, and prohibit partisan election officials.

There's lots of legislation in Congress to do just that, and we need to demand our representatives pass it immediately.

I just signed a petition to Congress. Can you join me by signing this petition?

http://www.moveonpac.org/repairthevote/

This is urgent because states are preparing to spend over a billion dollars on new electronic voting machines. Unless Congress requires paper printouts now, we'll be stuck with expensive machines that can't do a simple recount.

I hope you'll sign this petition to Congress:

http://www.moveonpac.org/repairthevote/

[Ron Lambert]

I agree with you on this, Neil. The possibilities for high-tech hijacking of elections will be greatly increased as we turn more and more to electronic means of voting.

The problem is, how do we produce a reliable permanent record? Even if we have paper printouts from electronic voting, it would be no challenge to have software alter the results before the paper record is produced. The voter would have to read the paper printout immediately after voting, and sign it to verify it, and make it the actual official record.