Lobby Day for Paper Trails March 8
Iowa paper trail advocates are planning to meet state legislators Wednesday to make the case against paperless voting. They will be led by voting machine expert Doug Jones of Iowa City.
Jones is a professor of computer science and former member of the Iowa board of voting machine examiners. He has consulted with election officials in Arizona, Florida, Panama, and Asia, and testified before Congress.
The meeting will be in room 102 at noon. Please ask your legislator to attend. Please attend yourself! Please come early (10:00 a.m.?) and spend the morning telling legislators about the meeting while simultaneously making your own case for trustworthy voting procedures such as paper ballots and random audits of ballot counting machines.
The Iowa House is currently blocking a bill that would require paper trails from all Iowa voting machines.
This event is an outgrowth of a column in the Des Moines Register by Carole Simmons which appeared last Saturday.
If there is enough participation and energy left over late in the day, perhaps it can be directed to the Des Moines offices of our Senators and Congressman Boswell. There is a roll for federal legislation, too, and none of the three have so far done their share to advance it.
March 6th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
When is Iowa legislature going to get it’s act together and get something
done for the people of Iowa. It’s rediculous that in this modern day when
using the technology we have that we can’t have a paper trail for our votes, but then I know why because the Republicans are afraid they will
lose the vote of the people so if they choose they can just ignore the people who did vote for a candidate they don’t want in. Another thing that
gets my goat, why is it just a few people get to decide when something should be voted on. Bring everything up for the full House and Senate to vote on everything that needs to be done. Now here we are again the last
two years or so was the stupid dove bill a waste of time and this year it’s now the Touch Play machines so the budget gets left again to the last thing which should be the first and only thing that should be done in the first two weeks of the session. I hope the ones that are up for reelection gets voted out because we definitely need some new blood and not the same old career politicians.