News & Action Alerts
January 11, 2008
From MoveOn
Can you sign this urgent petition asking local, state, and federal officials to require paper ballots for our votes? Clicking here will add your name:
The petition says: "We must act quickly to secure our elections with paper ballots and audits before November."
Elections are run at the state level, so we'll deliver your signature and comments to local election officials in addition to members of Congress.
Electronic voting machines are so unreliable and insecure; we might elect the wrong person president in 2008. As The New York Times Magazine reports:
[Voting machines] fail unpredictably, and in extremely strange ways; voters report that their choices "flip" from one candidate to another before their eyes; machines crash or begin to count backward; votes simply vanish. (In the 80-person town of Waldenburg, Ark. , touch-screen machines tallied zero votes for one mayoral candidate in 2006—even though he's pretty sure he voted for himself.) Most famously, in the November 2006 Congressional election in Sarasota, Fla., touch-screen machines recorded an 18,000-person "undervote" for a race decided by fewer than 400 votes. 3
You can read more from this scary report by clicking here and forward it along to your friends and family. It's really compelling.
From the WV Democratic Party
There are numerous new upcoming Democratic events across the state. View them all on your Democratic Party's web calendar here. To get your event listed send us an email at wvparty@wvdemocrats.com
Reminder : the Candidate Filing Period begins January 14 and ends the 26 for all offices on ballot in 2008. The filing period for those wishing to become a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver begins January 14, but does not close until May 14. You can find all of the information about this process on the web here.
The Legislature just convened is regular session and Gov. Joe Manchin just gave his annual State of the State address. We have links to the speech on our homepage.
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