Rush Holt's Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act (HR 811) is at a crucial point in its long journey towards a vote on the House floor.

An amendment banning DREs (the touch screen voting machines, shown by numerous journalistic investigations to be very vulnerable to hacking and errors) has been presented to the Rules Committee, and it seems that the Rules Committee is reluctant to allow the amendment to be voted on.

Please call Louise Slaughter, NY Representative of the 28th distrit and chair of the Rules Committee, and urge her to allow the "amendment banning DRE's" to go to the floor for a vote.

LOUISE McINTOSH SLAUGHTER, NY - CHAIRWOMAN (D)
http://www.louise.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39...
Phone: (202) 225-3615
Fax: (202) 225-7822

Additional Information:

BradBlog reports, the amendment proposed by CA Congresswoman Susan Davis "is stalled for the moment as the U.S. House Rules Committee debates whether Rep. Rush Holt's (D-NJ) flawed and controversial Election Reform Bill (HR 811) will be sent to the floor of the House at all and, if so, whether or not amendments will be allowed with it." Also stalled in committee is an amendment supported by the entire New York delegation that would give New York until 2010 to phase out the lever machines.

Thursday's New York Times called for a ban on electronic voting machines!

New York Times Editorial September 6, 2007 states:

"The [Holt] bill lacks one important thing: a ban on touch-screen voting machines....Electronic voting has been an abysmal failure. Computer experts have done study after study showing that electronic voting machines, which are often shoddily made, can easily be hacked. With little effort, vote totals can be changed and elections stolen. In many recent elections, voters have complained of "vote flipping," in which touch-screen machines took votes cast for one candidate and gave them to an opponent."

to read the entire New York Times article, click and/or copy and paste the link below:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/opinion/06thu1.html?_r=5&oref=login&pa...