BREAKING: DNC Voting Rights Inst. Endorses Emergency Paper Ballots! MORE!

[BradBlog]

Told you there'd be more today... -- Brad

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BREAKING: DNC Voting Rights Institute Endorses 11th Hour Emergency Paper Ballot Legislation!
Donna Brazile Posts Open Letter Encouraging Citizens to Pressure Lawmakers!
(While, So Far, All Republican Congress Members Apparently Uninterested in Ensuring American Citizens Can Vote This November!)

In her role as Chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute (VRI), Donna Brazile has issued a statement to The BRAD BLOG moments ago in support of the Congressional Emergency Paper Ballot legislation now pending in the U.S. House and Senate...

FULL STORY, COMPLETE OPEN LETTER:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3548

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AP Story on Congressional E-Voting Hearing Slants Hard Against Paper Balloting
Story on Today's House Hearing Covered by 'Ohio Regional' Reporter Said to Have Left Proceedings Not Long After House Hearing Began…

FULL STORY:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3547

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And John Gideon's 'Daily Voting News' is full of so many extraordinary stories today, we've gotta include the opening paragraph in full in this Alert...

'Daily Voting News' For September 28, 2006

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org

Maryland Gov. Ehrlich feels so negatively about his state's use of e-voting machines that he is actually using an automated phone message to encourage his supporters to vote absentee in Nov. / Overseas e-mailed ballots from the military are handled by a Pentagon contractor with partisan ties, according to an article in the San Jose Mercury. / Mississippi may disenfranchise all voters who use absentee ballots. They cannot get them mailed in time. How can that be alright? How can the military not be given time to vote? / Today was the House Admin. Committee hearing on voting technology. The AP reporter who attended must have fallen asleep after ten minutes. He only touched on one small part of what was discussed in the hearing. / The Tarrant Co. Texas Democrat party is preparing a federal lawsuit against the SoS for refusing to allow the county to have a vvpat....

ALL OF THOSE STORIES & MANY MORE:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3549

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[SharonRB]

1. If tomorrow is the last day of the session before the election,

how are they going to get this passed? I'm not holding out much hope.

[pooja]

2. If it doesn't pass, then you need to get a write-in ballot and make

sure you certify it at the post office when you mail it in.. hate to say poll tax.. but if you want to win, make sure your vote is as safe as it can be.

An example of what the repugs are doing in Florida is sending out a message via our beloved gov. explaining exactly these procedures for the upcoming election. Get the message out.

[texpatriot2004]

3. K & R for Transparent Democracy nm