Voting Reform: The Most Important Thing You Can Do

I am so sick of hearing Kerry was lame, Kerry didn't win by enough, Hillary is triangulating too far to the right in an
attempt to win the presidency and then lefter-leaning liberals won't vote for her. Boo Hoo! Kerry won by plenty. It's too bad
the country had many people too stupid to see the difference between Gore and Bush or Kerry and Bush. [What can I say to someone if their choice is Bush and Kerry and they thought Kerry was "too boring"? Or they thought Gore was "wooden"?]] BUT, THE COUNTRY WAS REALLY NOT THAT STUPID. Gore and Kerry both won. All right. So what do we do? Agitate for fair elections!

Here's something simple but far-reaching that you can do right here in NY State, from a DFNYC action list:

"(9) Tell The Board of Elections to Certify PB/OS Before It's Too Late

"PB/OS" (paper ballots with precinct-based optical scanners) is the safest, most reliable and most cost-effective choice for a voting system in NY State. And yet, the state Board of Elections has recently taken two outrageous steps against this system:

- Allowing the vendors NOT to submit optical scanners, effectively taking away the PB/OS option, and

- Jump-starting certification testing on an incomplete DRE machine (no paper ballot)

TAKE ACTION TODAY!

Mail or fax a letter to the State Board of Elections demanding that they (1) require vendors to submit NYS full face ballot compatible optical scanners for certification and (2) stop planned testing of the incomplete and illegal Liberty DRE machine. Remind the Board that they work for us, not the voting machine vendors.

Don't let the voting machine vendors decide what machines we vote on. Please write the State Board of Elections today.

By mail: NYS Board of Elections, 40 Steuben Street, Albany, NY 12207-2108

By fax: 518-486-4068

By e-mail: ldaghlian@elections.state.ny.us

Please address your letter to:

Peter Kosinski, Co-Executive Director
Stanley Zalen, Co-Executive Director
Neil W. Kelleher, Chair
Evelyn J. Aquila, Commissioner
Helena Moses Donohue, Commissioner

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