We have the majority! We must secure fair elections so we can take the White House in 2008!

[helderheid]

[dipsydoodle]

1. That issue is more important than any other.

In terms of cause and effect the election debacle, particularly in FL, has given rise to all subsequent events including the unnecessary loss of at least 3000 US lives.

[helderheid]

5. just imagine how different our world would be without stolen 2000 and 2004

[dipsydoodle]

7. Yes - ours and a substantial part of the rest of the whole world.

Unprecedented : The 2000 Presidential Election, with narration by Danny Glover, should be made compulsory viewing in all of your schools.

The UK isn't perfect but at least we've got paper voting.

[helderheid]

9. Is that online?

[dipsydoodle]

11. Nope !

Electronic voting remains illegal here as far as I'm aware.

You wander off down to the local library, primary school, leisure centre whatever, dependant on where your local polling station is . All will have been picked to be more or less within easy walking distance aside from country areas. You walk in and give them your name and address or the present the card which has previously been received by post, at your home address with a number on it, they give you a PIECE OF PAPER ! you go into a booth amd make your mark using a soft lead pencil which somebody has lovingly attached to a piece of string . Not exactly rocket science but it works for us.

There is also a postal voting system and some real Micky Mouse things happened a while ago when some ballots were found after the event. Prosecution is pending I believe.

Our electoral registers are updated each and every October. The register is also used to determine who is also eligible for jury service.

[dipsydoodle]

12. I mis-interpreted your question, it's here

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5278.htm

I'd thought you'd meant do we vote online. :)

[helderheid]

14. Heheh! it's all good - thanks SO much for the link!

:yourock:

[GOTV]

2. I'm really surprised that ....

... something like that didn't make it into the 100 hour agenda

[helderheid]

3. As am I - we'll need to be even more vigilant about sending this message to our new Majority

[Eric J in MN]

18. I'm not surprised. It's an issue for online activists.

I don't feel that Pelosi is as in touch with our concerns as Dennis Kucinich, for example.

[renate]

4. amen to that!

I bet the Dems know that their political future hangs on fair elections and will be working on this soon.

Oh BOY I am so excited thinking about how Democrats will be able to DO THINGS NOW. I'm absolutely over the moon....!

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

[helderheid]

6. I have faith in Dean - we don't have much time to turn this around!

[helderheid]

[kentuck]

10. That is why it is important to keep the FL Congressional race...

on the front burner. It is route to securing fair election. ANd it's fitting that it should start in FL..

[helderheid]

13. totally agree!

[helderheid]

15. kickickickickickickick

[helderheid]

16. .

[Eric J in MN]

17. Ask Congress to support "H.R. 6200, the Paper Ballot Act of 2006."

http://kucinich.us/node/114

On September 27, Congressman Kucinich, with 19 cosponsors, introduced H.R. 6200, the Paper Ballot Act of 2006.

The bill would "amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to conduct Presidential elections using paper ballots and to count those ballots by hand." It was referred to the Committee on House Administration and the Committee on Government Reform.

Specifically, the bill would amend Sec. 301(a) by adding new rules for presidential elections:

"(A) The State shall conduct the election using only paper ballots.

"(B) The State shall ensure that the number of ballots cast at a precinct or equivalent location which are placed inside a single box or similar container does not exceed 500.

[helderheid]

19. YES! That is THE bill on this to support!

[Eric J in MN]

20. Who is the person in your icon? NT

NT

[helderheid]

21. moi

:hi: