What organization is actively pursuing mandatory paper trails

[Cadence]

for the next elections? I want to know who to donate to, and put my energy behind. This and a MSM presence are our two most important issues.

[hiley]

1. Don't know

but maybe dzika at this election thread would know ?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=294636&mesg_id=294636

If you have not seen the survey from Congressman Conyers about Election Reform please fill it out for him.

http://johnconyers.com/index.asp?Type=SUPERFORMS&SEC={D806E54D-86E7-42DF-BA64-771A221369F1}

There is a really good interview with Rep.Conyers

http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=566



By Larisa Alexandrovna and John Byrne | RAW STORY Staff

The Michigan congressman who spearheaded Ohio’s first electoral challenge discussed a broad swath of issues in an interview with RAW STORY Wednesday, outlining his future plans for voting reform and criticizing efforts to deflect criticism from President Bush’s cabinet nominees by focusing on the color of their skin.

Rep. John Conyers, Jr., the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, spoke about his efforts to investigate voting irregularities in Ohio. He also detailed his thoughts on issues currently facing Congress.

Conyers’ investigation produced the second electoral challenge of the presidential contest in history. The challenge, he says, has given new definition to his cause.

“We established the fact that we’re not taking these massive irregularities and violations of election law lying down anymore,” Conyers said.

The civil rights veteran who was the first to propose the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday in 1979 also expressed serious concern about attempts to use the ethnic diversity of Bush’s cabinet to deflect criticism of the president’s policy. He addressed Secretary of Education Rod Paige and nominees Condoleezza Rice and Alberto Gonzales as examples.

“I think now we have to examine more than just the color of an appointee we have to examine their record and their philosophy and where they’re going to take us,” he said. “Many thought that he should really step down way before the end of his term because of the way he was being ignored and diminished in his role as Secretary of State. I think that he did himself a great disservice by staying until the end of his term.”

The congressman emphasized that policy isn’t nullified by the color of one’s skin.

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“Very few people can be fooled for long when the Secretary of Education denominates a teachers national union as a terrorist organization,” he said, speaking of Secretary Paige’s disparaging remarks about the union in February 2004.

Conyers called Rice a “Kissinger protege” who was going “to make Colin Powell look like a progressive.”

We have “Condoleezza Rice who rationalizes preemptive strike and Gonzales who condones torture and believes that there are many important exceptions to the Geneva conventions which we’re not bound to.

seek a subpoena,” he said.

Even if the Republican chairman does not allow for a hearing, Conyers says he’ll still continue his drive for reform.

“The battle goes on,” he said.

The congressman encouraged anyone interested in electoral reform to recommend changes in an election survey on his website. He said the survey would give him “another avenue of looking at this election with the intent to improve the next election.”

[Cadence]

2. Thanks. Do we know if Kerry is doing anything?

[hiley]

3. Not sure

I don't remember anything in the emails he has been sending out. However, it would not shock me because of the speech he gave on Dr. Martin Luther King day.