Demand Fair Elections

Last Wednesday, I posted about H.R. 550, The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2005, a House Resolution introduced by Congressman Rush Holt which would require all voting machines to produce paper trails, and would prohibit the use of secret software and all wireless and concealed communications devices in voting systems, the connection of any voting machine component to the Internet, the use of software or software modifications that have not been certified or re-certified, and political and financial conflicts of interest among manufactures, test laboratories, and political parties.

There's more, about which you can find out here.

Currently, H.R. 550 has 159 co-sponsors in the House, 9 of whom are Republican, and has been strongly endorsed by the bipartisan Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform, but it has been sitting in the House Administration Committee since it was introduced in February. We need to give H.R. 550 more attention.

This post is part of a continuing blogswarm launched by DBK of Blanton and Ashton’s, where you can find more information.

I encourage you, if you have you own blog, please participate in this important blogswarm, even if it’s just linking back to this post. And please sign the petition in support of H.R. 550 here.


Nothing we do matters if we don’t have fair elections.