[IP] EFF organizes e-voting "lobby days" in DC this week
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Subject: EFF Blogs Evoting: Transparent Lobbying Meets Transparent
Voting
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:38:47 -0700
From: Cindy Cohn <cindy@xxxxxxx>
To: declan@xxxxxxxx, Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Donna Wentworth <donna@xxxxxxx>, Matt Zimmerman
<mattz@xxxxxxx>, Cory Doctorow <doctorow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi guys,
I thought your readers might be interested in what we're up to on the
EFF Deep Links blog today and tomorrow. We're blogging the "lobby
day" efforts of over 200 volunteers from over 25 states who have
gathered in DC to lobby for HR 550, the Voter Confidence and
Increased Accessibility Act. This is Rush Holt's bill and it's the
"gold standard" of the various evoting bills on Capitol Hill right now.
We've asked the volunteers to tell us what happens, as it happens.
EFF's evoting attorney Matt Zimmerman is posting updates to the blog
throughout the blitz, so that folks concerned about evoting
nationwide can see how it's going and identify lawmakers doing the
right thing, as well as who still needs some education.
Below is the first post, from Wednesday,, but there are several more
up already at: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/
Cindy
Transparent Lobbying Meets Transparent Voting
Feel like your democracy is a bit opaque these days? Beginning
tomorrow, EFF will help shed a little light in two interconnected
ways. On Thursday and Friday, June 9th and 10th, EFF will provide a
series of weblog reports of a two-day lobbying effort by a coalition
of activist groups fighting for transparent, auditable electronic
voting.
The lobbying blitz is aimed at supporting HR 550, the Voter
Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act. This law would require
electronic voting systems used in federal elections to generate a
paper trail that could be verified by voters prior to their votes
being cast (for more information, check out EFF's action alert). The
coalition includes Common Cause, VerifiedVoting.org, VoteTrustUSA,
Voters United, Rock the Vote, Working Assets, and other election-
reform advocates.
More than 200 citizen activists from 25 states have signed up for the
blitz and have already set up over 80 meetings with their
representatives. On Friday, the coalition will hold a press
conference with the bill's sponsor, Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ),
to report on the event's progress. EFF intends to provide feedback
from activists, Congressional staffers, and event coordinators to
bring the public into the process as much as possible.
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Cindy Cohn Cindy@xxxxxxx
Legal Director www.eff.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 436-9333 x108
(415) 436-9993 (fax)
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