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demodonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 10:31 AM
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FREE BUS to Harrisburg Tomorrow To Fight for Fair Elections!
PLEASE FORWARD to your local lists:

Come to the Election Reform Forum in Harrisburg tomorrow (Tuesday March 13)! It will be a great day, but we need more people and we need as many supporters of election integrity and voter-verified paper ballots as possible to be there.

If you are planning to come, please sign up (cut and paste following link into your browser if link is broken) :
https://www.kintera.org/site/apps/ka/ct/contactcustom.asp?c=feIJKQMEF&b=2551891&sid=136810812

*** There are FREE BUSSES (one from Pittsburgh and one from Philly) that include a FREE LUNCH!

Pittsburgh bus will make a stop in Bedford at Turnpike entrance to pick up and drop off Central PA people who are interested. If anyone in other areas can CARPOOL (NEPA? NWPA?) please come and bring people!

Here is bus info:

Pittsburgh leaves promptly at 6am from the Hill House located at 1835 Centre Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15219 and will arrive at the Capitol Complex in Harrisburg by 10am. Bus will leave Harrisburg at 4pm and arrive in Pittsburgh at 8pm. To reserve a seat please contact Celeste Taylor at 412-670-0937 or ctaylor@pfaw.org.

Philadelphia bus will leave at 8am from the Cheltenham Mall Parking lot located at Cheltenham and Washington Ave.., Philadelphia, PA 19138 and will arrive at the Capitol Complex at 10am. Bus will leave Harrisburg at 4pm and arrive in Philadelphia at 6pm. To reserve a seat please contact Celeste Taylor at 412-670-0937 or ctaylor@pfaw.org.

Busses are first come, first served. Again, please REGISTER at the above link even if you contact one of the numbers above for a bus seat or are carpooling/driving yourself.

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More than 40 years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed, minority voters are still facing calculated and determined voter intimidation and suppression tactics. And even though the need for a voter-verified paper record has been well-documented over the past several elections, not all voters in Pennsylvania have access to dependable voting systems. Additionally, language minority voters and those with disabilities continually face barriers to the ballot box.

Our forum will address voting machine and voter verifiability issues, barriers to voting, deceptive practices and other related concerns, and will be followed by an afternoon of legislative visits with those who have the power to guarantee access and accountability!

Date and Time:
March 13, 2007
Forum: 10:30 - 12:30
Legislative visits: 1:00 - 3:30

Location:
Harrisburg, PA 17120 - Capitol Complex: Keystone Building (400 North St), Hearing Room 1
(Group transportation will be available from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh on a space-available basis)

Speakers:
Rafael Collazo - People For the American Way Foundation and Democracia USA
Rev. Robert Shine - People For the American Way Foundation and African
American Ministers Leadership Council
Barry Kauffman - Common Cause PA
Lora Lavin - League of Women Voters of PA
Tim Stevens - B-PEP, Black Political Empowerment Project
Marybeth Kuznik - VotePA
Paul O'Hanlon - Disabilities Rights Network of PA

The forum will also feature a montage from Video the Vote!

Invited Guests:
U.S. Representative Mike Doyle
Secretary of State Pedro Cortes
Senator James Ferlo
Senator John Pippy
Representative Dan Frankel
Representative Tony Payton, Jr.

Sponsoring organizations:
People For the American Way/Foundation
League of Women Voters of PA
VotePA
B-PEP, Black Political Empowerment Project
Disability Rights Network of PA
Common Cause/PA
Allegheny County ACORN
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Democracy Rising PA
Pennsylvania Center for Civic Participation
Pennsylvania Council of Churches
League of Young Voters
The Committee of Seventy
National Council of Jewish Women - PA

If you have any questions, or would like to find out how you can become a co-sponsor or donate to this event, please contact Celeste Taylor at 412-670-0937 or ctaylor@pfaw.org.
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demodonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 02:15 PM
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1. Ride Needed for One Person From Lehigh Valley Area!
Please contact organizer Celeste 412-670-0937 or ctaylor@pfaw.org if you might be able to help.

Not sure of exact town where the ride is needed from.
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