BREAKING: BOXER, DODD FILE 11TH HOUR EMERGENCY PAPER BALLOT LEGISLATION!

[kster]

posted by Bradblog
URL: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3531



BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: BOXER, DODD INTRODUCE 11th HOUR EMERGENCY PAPER BALLOT LEGISLATION IN SENATE!

Calls for 'Contingency Paper Ballots' in States, Counties this November to be Paid for Feds!

Co-Author of HAVA is Co-Sponsor of New Bill Answering Our Call for a 'LET AMERICA VOTE ACT', Makes Paper Ballots Optional to States Rather Than Mandated…But We'll Take it! -- Sources Say House Bill to Follow Soon!

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) introduced emergency legislation to amend the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) this afternoon to offer funding to states and counties who make 'contingency paper ballots' available to voters to be used at the voter's option instead of electronic voting systems.

The so-called contingency paper ballots would be counted as normal ballots, as opposed to Provisional Ballots which must be vetted first to determine the integrity of the voter's registration. Provisional ballots are frequently counted only several days after Election Day, and often, not at all. The Senate legislation, however, does not spell that out specifically.

The BRAD BLOG has learned from a source currently working on similar legislation in the House, set to be filed there shortly, will include such specific language. Several Capitol Hill sources have confirmed that such legislation is currently in the works. We hope to have more details on the Houes version later today.

The inclusion of Dodd as a co-sponsor on this 11th hour legislation is no small coup, as he was one of the original co-sponsors of the HAVA legislation of 2002 which this bill would amend. Until now, he and the other bi-partisan co-sponsors of that original legislation have been reluctant to open HAVA to amendment.

The legislation, filed just after 4pm ET this afternoon, would refund voting jurisdictions who offer paper ballots as an option to voters, and requires such jurisdictions post "in a conspicuous manner at the polling place, a notice stating that contingency paper ballots are available at the polling place and that a voter may request to use such a ballot at the voter's discretion."

Election integrity advocacy groups and citizens alike have been rallying members of both the U.S. House and Senate to pass such legislation since The BRAD BLOG initially called for what we had called, the "LET AMERICA VOTE ACT" last Tuesday. The act we called for would mandate emergency paper ballots at all polling places this November in light of thousands of voters having been sent without being able to cast a vote in primary after primary election so far this year when new electronic voting machines either malfunctioned or were otherwise unavailable...

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[MsKandice01]

1. Awesome!!!

That's MY Senator!! Off to fire off a letter of thanks to Barbara Boxer.

[MadMaddie]

2. Ohhhhh.....my oh my....this is getting exciting....

:popcorn:

[AndyA]

3. WOO HOO! That is all - WOO HOO!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[rocktivity]

4. The repubs don't have the market cornered on October surprises!

CUE THE VONAGE THEME!

:woohoo:
rocknation

[Dinger]

5. Proud To Cast The 5th Vote!

And put on the Greatest!:)

[robinlynne]

6. YES!!!! This is what we need.

(among other things...)

[livvy]

7. I like it. I like it! Excellent. This is getting interesting.

[thereismore]

This is better than sex! well, almost. Yippeeeeeee! nt

[rzemanfl]

8. Remember this!

IF YOUR REPRESENTATIVE VOTED AGAINST THE PAPER BALLOT, THINK ABOUT THAT WHILE YOU ARE STANDING IN LINE WAITING FOR THEM TO GET THE MACHINES TO WORK! Vote accordingly, that is all.

[FogerRox]

9. This is an easy KNR,

[w4rma]

10. Very good start. (nt)

[NV Whino]

11. Go for it Barbara!

Maybe, maybe, maybe we can pull this mess out of the fire yet.

(Is there a fingers crossed smilie?)

[acmejack]

12. Yes!

Better late than never!

[JimDandy]

13. Great news! K and R n/t

[suziedemocrat]

14. Love that Boxer and how about Dodd? K&R. n/t

[Greyskye]

15. Excellent start!

:kick: and R!

[rumpel]

16. Congratulations for Brad et al

:applause:

[Amaryllis]

17. kick

[Melissa G]

18. K&R! Way to go Boxer and Dodd!!! n/t

[midnight]

19. This bill makes paper ballots optional for whom? Futhermore,

who gets to decide? Why does something this important have to be rammed in at the last minute?

[LiberalUprising]

20. And this does what good, excatly?

It says ***Paper Ballots Optional to States***

Hardly a victory by any stretch..


And they still own the machines

Just how many states will go for this?

Just enough to make the result "credible" I suspect. The game is irreversibly rigged and this "11th HOUR EMERGENCY PAPER BALLOT LEGISLATION" will have zero effect.

Now IF it had been manditory , then ya might have something, although it did take 5+ years of impeacable after impeachable offenses by the bushies and an election nearing, but by god,
miralces do happen.

[kster]

25. The Politicians didn't have to say or do anything

but they did, this is more than likely a show from our Politicians, just for our movement, but the fact that the politicians had to make this move, says that our movement is making noise, so much noise, that the Politicians had to respond some how. You are correct, but to the Politicians, We are not done, when it comes to the secret vote counting machines, we will see this thing thru, what we all have to ask the Politicians is ONE QUESTION

[LiberalUprising]

29. Is the glass half empty or half full?

You have more confidence in the system than I do.

[kster]

32. I have more confidence in our movement,

not in the government, be it D or R's, the reason I have no confidence in our Government is that an eight year old knows better than to have a contest much less an election counted and/or tabulated in secret, but that is what out LEADERS, have allowed to happen, I try and give them a little breathing room because the secret vote counting has been going on for so long, that they may not know how to walk their way out of it.

Clinton, I hope, on Friday showed them the way out, Truth and Honesty will win every time. Lets hope they follow Clinton's lead.

People care more about the future, not so much the past, if the politicians fix the problem with future elections, whole heartedly, the people won't look back. My two cents

[dweller]

33. sometimes it's just a matter of confidence

in self.

system be damned.
dp

[flyarm]

21. WONDERFUL NEWS!! I WISH ANDY WAS HERE TO SEE THIS!!

HE WOULD BE SO HAPPY..

Thank You Senator's Barbara Boxer and Chris Dodd!!

and thank you to all who have fought for this relentlessly!!

and i just Know..Andy is looking down and smiling!!

Here's to you Andy!!

fly

[Kip Humphrey]

22. R&K'd & recommended to Sheila Jackson-Lee (my Congressional Rep)

URGE, URGE, URGE Your Senator and Congressperson to get behind this legislation. We need to flood the Congress NOW!

[AtLiberty]

23. Thank you, Brad...

For making this happen!

[bleever]

24. Why do I keep getting this message:

"Error: You've already recommended that thread."


:kick:

[kster]

26. I know I keep getting

"you can't recommend your own thread".

[bleever]

27. LOL.

At least YOU should know better.


:toast:

[emmadoggy]

28. Great news!!

:applause:

[Red Right and BLUE]

30. AMAZING!

Kick! Nom!

[JimDandy]

31. SEND THIS TO YOUR COUNTY'S BALLOT PRINTERS !!

Call your County Clerk/Auditor's Office first thing in the morning and get the name and address of the company that prints your county's absentee ballots (CA has the list of them on the SOS's website.) They stand to profit enormously from this should it pass. Send them this bill and highlight the part where HAVA will reimburse the county for actual costs or seventy-five cents per ballot. Ballot printers have the ear of the County Clerks/Boards of Elections and undoubtedly easy access to lobby congress.

[Digit]

34. Kicking

[mom cat]

35. Call, write, fax, e-mail all your congress critters on this one! K&R