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Voting Machines
Problems with voting machines remain widespread, including equipment malfunction, shortages, hacking, and non-verifiability.
Organizing ResourcesVoter Bill of RightsFrom unreliable electronic voting machines and millions of uncounted ballots, to partisan election officials and 10-hour waits at the polls, it is clear that our electoral system is in dire need of an overhaul. To build a more just, secure, and robust democracy, please support the following 10-point Voter Bill of Rights . . . NewsVIRGINIA: Election monitors call for extension of VA voting hoursDate: November 4, 2008FLORIDA: Optical Scanning Machines are MalfunctioningDate: November 4, 2008OHIO: Machines reported flipping votesDate: November 4, 2008Take ActionDIEBOLD: Return California's Money!source: Velvet RevolutionVideo the Votesource: VideotheVote.orgStop vote-flipping in West Virginiasource: No More Stolen Elections! & TrueVote.USEventsDemocracy Track at the U.S. Social ForumThe Democracy Track is a series of sessions and community spaces at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27-July 1, 2007. The purpose of these sessions is to centralize democracy in all of our everyday struggles. Extending Democracy w/The Progressive, Manski, Farsetta, Gray, Wellstone(May 1, 2009 - May 2, 2009)Major speakers include Robert Redford, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the editorial staff of the Progressive Magazine. Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with various members of Liberty Tree's Board of Directors and Board of Advisors -- John Nichols and Robert McChesney, among them -- will also be speaking at this exciting event. Publications & TalksNICHOLS: Special Report on the 2008 Elections(November 5, 2008)"A great democracy that is home to a very busy people ought not ask citizens to wait up to eight hours to cast their ballots, But that is precisely what America has done during the course of this most volatile and critical of election seasons." FRIEDMAN: Democracy's Gold Standard(September 14, 2009)Advancement Project: Several Battleground States Not Prepared for Voter Turnout(October 9, 2008)A look at the Advancement Project report that lies as the imputes for our recent Action Alert on polling place capacity. |
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