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URGENT -- Please forward widely
From: VotePA -- Voting Rights & Election Reform in Pennsylvania
www.votePA.us
Date: Thursday April 21, 2005
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The Pennsylvania Department of State has scheduled a hearing to possibly RE-certify the UniLect Patriot voting system.
The hearing will be tomorrow (!) FRIDAY, APRIL 22, at 11 AM in HEARING ROOM 1, NORTH OFFICE BUILDING at the Capitol Complex. (This is the same place the Election Reform Task Force held its meetings). The room is quite large, and thus this hearing will be able to admit more observers and public citizens than were able to be seated for the decertification hearing on the UniLect system earlier this year.
There is an urgent need for some help:
1) The citizen groups need people with strong computer expertise to attend, observe the hearing, and take notes. The expert witness who was at the original decertification hearing has a previously scheduled event and is unable to attend this time.
2) Public citizens are needed to attend the hearing as concerned voters. The Department of State, and any press who may attend, need to see that Pennsylvanians care deeply about how our votes are recorded and counted (and by whom they are recorded and counted!) Your mere presence in the audience will help make a strong statement. Please come and bring as many people as you can, and if possible everybody wear something orange if you have it (the color of Fair Elections). Public citizens will not need to speak; simply observe the proceedings quietly and take notes if you can. It should be an interesting process!
The UniLect Patriot system being reconsidered tomorrow is said to be a newer version than the one that was decertified by our state on April 7. If this model is re-certified, it is unclear what voters in Mercer, Beaver, and Greene counties, who have the old Patriot machines, will have to use at our Primary Election on May 17.
Please help these brave citizens protect their vote! You will be helping to protect us all -- a bad voting system in ANY area of our state affects EVERY Pennsylvanian.
THANK YOU
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