Kerrry cosponsor paper trail.

[Mass]

S. 330

At the request of Mr. ENSIGN, the name of the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. KERRY) was added as a cosponsor of S. 330, a bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a voter-verified permanent record or hardcopy under title III of such Act, and for other purposes.

[wisteria]

1. Nice to see he supports this fully. n/t

[blm]

2. Not enough. Kerry needs to say the machines need SECURING BEFORE VOTE or

stick with banning all electronic voting machines state by state.

He cannot do this in increments now.

[fedupinBushcountry]

3. He did that along with others

in 2005, (Boxer, Lautenberg, Clinton). Frist and his gang are responsible for not putting this up for a vote.

Count Every Vote Act of 2005
On February 17th Senators John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer and Frank Lautenberg introduced S 450 the ?Count Every Vote Act of 2005? to fully fund the Help America Vote Act, fund the activities of the Election Assistance Commission, and help states invest in better voting machines with paper trails.

The Count Every Vote Act of 2005 seeks to address concerns about the security of voting machines and the inability of the majority of voters who may use these machines to be able to adequately verify their vote and ensure that the vote they intended was both cast and counted. The act also addresses many other problems in our Federal election system ? including long wait times in which to vote, the erroneous purging of voters, voter suppression and intimidation, and unequal access to the voting process ? remain. The bill establishes, among other initiatives, a voter-verified paper trail for use by all individuals, including language minority voters, illiterate voters and voters with disabilities; and mandates national standards in a variety of areas, including the registration of voters and the counting of provisional ballots.

All provisions of this legislation are to be in effect no later than the November 2006 Federal election. The Count Every Vote Act requires that all provisions be in place for the next major election cycle in 2006.

Representatives from civil rights organizations and voting rights advocates have praised the legislation, including People For the American Way, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, NAACP, Common Cause, the National Voting Rights Institute, DEMOS and the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium.

The full text of the bill is available http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:s450is.txt.pdf


http://www.johnkerry.com/features/count/

Count Every Vote
Election reform legislation must be on the legislative calendar this year. Read about Kerry?s proposal.
http://www.johnkerry.com/features/votingrights/

[blm]

4. I know - but since then, Kerry's learned more and sides with banning

the machines state by state. He needs to craft a strategy to spearhead the movement NOW.

I don't mean to sound tough on Kerry, I just expect more out of him because I know he is the one most capable of doing what needs to be done.

[fedupinBushcountry]

5. I know he is capable too

but, he can't do it alone. You know BLM when I voted for the first time on Diebold this spring for the Dem primary here, the people working there laughed at me when I asked where is my paper for proof of my vote. They are so clueless, it is pathetic. What gets to me even more is that these machines came in when we had a Dem for Gov. and now we have another Dem as Gov., why didn't they do anything to stop it?

[blm]

6. This is what I mean when I say the Dem INFRASTRUCTURE is what keeps our

Dem presidents from taking office. If our infrastructures were even HALF as schooled, disciplined and organized as the RNC, we'd be into Gore's second term by now.