The rise of electronic voting has created new ways to disenfranchise African-American voters—through high-tech ethnic profiling, inequitable allocation of equipment, and discrimination against non-computer-users and the elderly.

 

The solution? Prohibit the use of electronic voting systems, and replace them with voter-marked paper ballots, optical scanners, and stringent audits — a combination that provides the most secure safeguards available today and in the foreseeable future.

 

The opportunity to ban electronic voting is before Congress now. HR 811, the “Voter

Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007,” does not prohibit electronic voting but must be amended to do so, in order to protect the voting rights of African-Americans.

 

“Many national organizations are pushing electronic voting machines, in spite of evidence that the machines are disenfranchising African-Americans and other minorities. Everyone must take a closer look at this — and soon.”

~ Velmanette Montgomery, New York State Senator

 

NAtional: Electronic Voting Machines: New, High-Tech Ways to Disenfranchise African-Americans

http://www.votersunite.org/info/E-ballotsDisenfranchiseAfricanAmericans.pdf

 

NAtional: HAVA and HR811 Voting Machines’ Impact on Minority Communities

http://www.wheresthepaper.org/HAVAandHR811MinorityImpact070330.htm

 

NAtional: EAC Finally Releases Previously Withheld, 9 Month Old Report on 'Voter ID' Failures After Congressional Prodding

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4341

 

NAtional: Hinchey Statement on U.S. Election Assistance Commission's

Release of Report on Voter Identification Issues

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny22_hinchey/morenews/033007EACIDreport.html

 

CA: Editorial: Election system review

http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/147085.html

 

CA: Riverside County - Expert: Electronic ballots in Riverside Co. vulnerable to hackers

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=6306337&nav=9qrx

 

CA: Riverside County - Hacker gives voters something to worry about

Finnish scientist testifies how easy it is to hack system

http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070331/NEWS0301/703310329/1006

 

CA: Riverside County committee hears vote for paper ballots

http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_R_vote31.d67b21.html

 

FL: House panel shoots down plans for vote paper trails

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/state/epaper/2007/03/31/a18a_XGR_voting_0331.html

 

MO: Voting bill too specific, county says

Touch-screen machines’ future at risk.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2007/Mar/20070331News001.asp

 

OH: Cuyahoga County - In Ohio: GOP Party Kingpin (Guilty Yet Defiant) Battles On

http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/3/30/204010/155

 

PA: Cambria County - Officials receive expert’s report

http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_089231740.html

 

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