EXCLUSIVE: WATERS TO WITHDRAW CO-SPONSORSHIP OF HOLT ELECTION REFORM BILL, CALLS FOR PAPER BALLOTS! [View All]

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EXCLUSIVE: REP. MAXINE WATERS ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO WITHDRAW CO-SPONSORSHIP OF HOLT ELECTION REFORM BILL!
Calls for a Return to Paper Ballots During Commemorative MLK, Jr. Keynote Address in Santa Cruz!
California Congresswoman is First of Bill's 192 Co-Sponsors to Pull Support Amid Heavy Criticism of Legislation by Election Integrity Advocates...

-- Guest Blogged by Emily Levy of VelvetRevolution.us with additional reporting by Brad Friedman

During a question and answer period after a speech at during a Black History Month event last night sponsored by the University of California Santa Cruz, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), announced that she plans to withdraw her co-sponsorship of Rep. Rush Holt's Election Reform Legislation (HR 811).

Citing the bill's failure to require paper ballots, allowing for uncounted "paper trails" instead, Waters replied to a question of mine that she would "glad to withdraw name from the bill" when she returns to Washington on Tuesday in the wake of recent conversations she's had in California with Election Integrity advocates. The announcement drew an enthusiastic round of applause from those in attendance at Tuesday night's 23rd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation at UCSC which was keynoted by Waters.

Waters would be the first of the bill's current 192 House co-sponsors to withdraw her support.

"What would it take," I asked, "for you to withdraw your support?"

"It takes me getting to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday morning," she replied before detailing her reasons for the move....

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