Take 60 Secs-Tell your county -NC deserves the best voting system

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

**Take this 60 second action alert **

Tell Your County: North Carolina Deserves the Best Voting System
One minute is all it takes to help save North Carolina's counties and taxpayers millions of dollars... one minute for the best possible implementation of the verifiable voting law we all worked so hard to pass.
Some would like NC to buy expensive e-voting machines (DREs) that are vulnerable to malfunctions. But this would undermine the intent of our new law: to increase voter confidence in our elections.

North Carolina can choose a better system, the precinct-based optical scan system, which starts with a voter-verified paper ballot and costs far less than DREs, both to buy and to maintain and operate. This system is used with equipment that assists the disabled to mark and verify ballots privately and independently.

The counties have a say in this. If you tell your county decision-makers: "Don't fail us! For once, the best system is the most cost-effective," you can make the difference.

Don't let them undo the "Public Confidence in Elections" Act. Take 60 seconds: send a message to your election officials and county commissioners to say no one wants millions of tax dollars wasted on a system we know will fail.
When you are done, you can pass this alert on to everyone you know. Use the sample letter below, or feel free to edit it as you see fit. (If you prefer to send a fax, please click the "send fax" box below.)


http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/vevo/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1621 or http://tinyurl.com/am786

Go to this link to send your county officials a message,
and please pass this on to all friends and list serves.....Make sure you select FAX as well as email, as some county officials don't have email! Thank you!

[dweller]

1. that page takes me nowhere

but to a page that tells me to select my state, NC selected yields
Not found.


dp

[kimpossible]

2. Done, and kicked!

[wildeyed]

3. done

[mzteris]

4. Here's the reply I received.....

The State Board decertified our optical scan equipment therefore we will no longer be able to use our current system in an election. I and several other citizens spoke to the State Board about keeping the Optech III-PE used in Wake County certified. It is accurate (as proven by recounts) and we have been able to program, test, certify and maintain the equipment without any vendor help. Our optical scan precinct count system has served us well and I wish we could still use the machines, but we will not be able to. The Wake County Board will be looking at all certified equipment available for purchase and will be reviewing all options available. Please rest assured that the Board will have a public forum with the certified
equipment demonstrated prior to making their decision.

Cherie Poucher, Director
Wake County Board of Elections
919-856-6245
[e-mail]

"E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law "NCGS Ch. 132" and may be disclosed to third parties."