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HR 811, the third incarnation of the Holt bill, is a critical measure needed to protect the integrity of our elections, and it now has very good prospects of being enacted. It already has 210 co-sponsors in the House, where only 218 votes are required to pass it.

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Obaku
April 29, 2007, 10:40 p.m.
Better late than never, I guess.
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STILLWATER00
April 30, 2007, 1 p.m.
It;s about time!
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IanFraigun
April 30, 2007, 2:30 p.m.
Glad to see this bill. I along with I am sure millions of others vote absentee just to ensure that there is a paper trail of our ballots so there can be no playing with our votes.
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ballbuster2
April 30, 2007, 3:40 p.m.
i too agree! we need the paper trail to try and keep the thieving politician's in line, however much that may be.
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joeblowe
April 30, 2007, 3:58 p.m.
This is absolutely necessary. If it CAN'T be verified by anyone who cares to do so, how can anyone trust it? Remember the adage: TRUST, but verify.
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vvv63vvv
April 30, 2007, 5:44 p.m.
poor repubs... there goes their fallback strategy
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joey-evans
April 30, 2007, 7:14 p.m.
I do not understand why anyone would be concerned that there will now be an actual paper trail to validate a person's vote?
There should have been one when they first started using these machines. Diebold made sure that shrub stole the last election much like his brother the election before that in Florida. All involved should be held accountable for the theft of the White House.
JOEY EVANS
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SlapALib
April 30, 2007, 8:09 p.m.
As long as the paper trail does not include any f'ing chads. Can we at least agree on that?
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Ebonvoice
April 30, 2007, 8:16 p.m.
"The power belongs not in the hands of those who cast the votes, but in the hands of those who count them."
As long as corporations like Diebold and ChoicePoint skew the count and "mistakenly" remove legitimate voters, we have little chance of maintaining a clean election. All that's needed is a few bucks "invested" in a key battleground state (say, Florida or Ohio), and an election cane be easily bought.
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tkepner
April 30, 2007, 8:20 p.m.
I don't understand why everyone doesn't use the system we use in New Hampshire. Everyone is given a paper ballot. (and we know exactly how many to print because we print one ballot for every registered voter, knowing that only 1/3 to 1/2 of the registered voters ever show up means we always have twice as many ballots available as required). They mark it with a pencil in the booth. They put it in the ballot box. At the end of the day, the box is opened in front of the poll counters (which number from 10 to 100). Ballots are counted by teams of 3 (one Repub, one Dem, one Ind., volunteers) who record the vote. In larger towns where hand-counting won't work, they run them through a scanner, and scanner rejects are hand-counted. Totals must match, or it's recounted. Totals are then sent to the capitol. This blend of tech and non-tech has an error rate (verified by a statewide study) of under .1%
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