Support CT Bill S.B.55 for Voter-Verified Paper Ballots

[Lori Price CLG]

Alert: Support Connecticut Bill S.B.55 for Voter-Verified Paper Ballots

March 24th, 2005

Please respond to this alert only if you live in Connecticut.

Connecticut will soon buy new voting equipment to replace lever machines. ONLY YOU can prevent the purchase of unreliable paperless electronic voting machines (that repeatedly lose votes through malfunctions and failures and do not allow for legitimate audits or recounts). Make sure that Connecticut will have publicly verifiable and reliable elections and ensure your right to a voter-verified paper ballot (VVPB) by supporting Senate Bill 55, An Act Concerning Voter Registration, Certain Nominating Procedures, Campaign Accountability, A Voter Guide, Push Polling and Electronic Voting Machines.

VerifiedVoting.org is partnering with TrueVoteCT.org to support Senate Bill 55. In addition to various other election reform measures, the bill requires a voter-verified paper ballot so that meaningful audits and recounts are possible in Connecticut, and also has good language on accessibility. S.B.55 passed successfully through its first hurdle, the CT Government Administrations and Elections (GAE) Committee, so the time is NOW to urge your Senator and Representative in the strongest possible terms to pass this bill as soon as possible!

Take Action Today! Send your Senator and Representative a fax or email letter to co-sponsor and pass S.B.55 immediately. Visit our Action Center now at http://hq.demaction.org/dia/organizations/vevo/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=507

Lori Price

[Liberty Belle]

1. Kick!

[KaliTracy]

2. If you haven't already, you may want to post this on the 2004 Election

Results and Discussion -- many people there concerned about this issue.

[Wilms]

3. (CT) Committee Backs 2 Election-Security Bills

Committee Backs 2 Election-Security Bills

March 24, 2005
By MARK PAZNIOKAS, Courant Staff Writer

When electronic voting is used throughout Connecticut next year, it should be accompanied by a voter-verified paper trail, a legislative committee decided Wednesday.

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The first bill would require that computerized voting machines produce a permanent paper record that voters could view and that could assist election officials in a recount.

The new machines also must permit voters to verify their ballot selections and make changes before casting their ballot.

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The electronic voting bill was sent to the Senate.

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http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-campaign0324.artmar24,0,5692562.story?coll=hc-headlines-local

Courtesy of your buddies:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203

[ProgressiveConn]

4. SB55 hasn't had its final draft done yet. So still in LCO.

In general I think we can fix the problems with it especially after we take over the governorship in 2006. I would have liked an open source clause in there and the insistence that any company machines are purchased from be completely nonpartisan. If we end up with diebold machines I'm going to cry.

[truckin]

5. Help Prevent Diebold Touch Screens in CT

Anyone who would like to help prevent CT from purchasing touch screen voting machines should click on the link below and find out what you can do to preserve fair voting in CT. There is currently an RFP out that specifies only touch screen machines be purchased for CT and if there is not a strong grass roots effort we will probably end up with them. By 2006 CT will have purchased voting machines that we will probably be using for the next 20 years. It will be too late by then. So if you think this is an important issue (I think it is the most important issue we face today) please click on the link below and volunteer to do whatever you can to further this cause.

http://truevotect.org/

[bear425]

6. kick! n/t