My US Senator occasionally deigns to send me email.
The title of the most recent: "Restoring Voter Confidence"
Oh WOW!
I thought maybe the nincompoop will actually begin listening to his constituents and maybe even do something worthwhile.
Nope.
Dear Friends,Two things, Senator:
Electronic touch voting machines won’t be used in future presidential and congressional elections if Congress passes a bill I filed today that bans most touch-screen devices and requires all voting machines to produce a paper receipt.
I met this morning with Florida's chief elections overseer, Kurt Browning, here in the nation's capital. As you may know, Florida recently imposed a state ban on touch-screen voting machines, and I modeled my bill, in part, after that statute. The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007 would require all voting machines to produce a voter-verified paper trail by next year’s presidential election and provides up to $1 billion for states to use for new voting equipment.
But most importantly, the bill would phase out the use of touch-screen voting machines in federal elections by 2012, a measure Browning said he supports.
A companion version of my bill in the House was passed by a key committee and awaits a vote by the full chamber.
Citizens must have confidence in the integrity of their elections. The bottom line is we have to ensure every vote is counted--and counted properly.
1) One Billion dollars for new voting equipment.
Look at the bottom of the page. That would work as well, and would be a helluva lot cheaper.
Seriously though, if you can't come up with something for lots less than one billion of my tax dollars for new voting equipment, I won't be writing, circling, or punching your name on whatever kind of ballot it produces.
2) "Citizens must have confidence in the integrity of their elections."
First we need to have confidence in the integrity of our elected congresspeople. And Congress' approval rating is at a record LOW.
Take the hint.
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