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  • From: tom poe <tompoe AT amihost.com>
  • To: Fork <fork AT xent.com>
  • Cc: Open Studios <Open_Studios AT yahoogroups.com>, Community Studios <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Community_studios] [Fwd: Please choose paper at the Polls - Make your vote count]
  • Date: 26 Oct 2004 06:39:28 -0700

-----Forwarded Message-----

> From: SusanMarieWeber <susanmarieweber AT earthlink.net>
> To: EG Group Notices <susanmarieweber AT earthlink.net>
> Subject: Please choose paper at the Polls - Make your vote count
> Date: 25 Oct 2004 23:06:08 -0700
>
> The message below is from Cindy Cohen, Electronic Freedom Foundation
>
> After all the work we have done in this area, to have the REgistrars of
> Voters be so arragant is intolerable.
>
> If you don't live in California, please forward this to all your California
> Friends. - the website is entertaining
>
> Susan Marie Weber
> ========================================================================
>
> Hi All
>
> We need your help. California voters who are worried about
> electronic voting machines have an option to vote on paper this year.
> We worked very hard to get this from the Secretary of State and it
> was a major victory -- he was sued over it and won in federal court.
>
> Now we've learned that several of the larger counties (including
> Alameda, Santa Clara and Riverside) have instructed their pollworkers
> that they cannot tell voters about this choice. They must steer
> voters to the insecure machines and can only offer paper if a voter
> affirmatively chooses it.
>
> Needless to say, this is outrageous. To try to raise voter awareness
> of the choice (and hopefully shame the registrars of voters to change
> their minds), we've thrown together a website:
>
> www.paperorplastic2004.org.
>
> Please take a look and send the link on to your friends, family and
> other voters in the 11 affected counties (the list is on the
> website). We have very little time to get the word out, and I'm
> hoping that we can spread this far and wide and hopefully even
> provoke a little media coverage as well.
>
> We're working on versions in Spanish, Tagalog and a couple of other
> languages too.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cindy
>





  • [Community_studios] [Fwd: Please choose paper at the Polls - Make your vote count], tom poe, 10/26/2004

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