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Posted on November 14, 2007 - Filed Under Elections |
This message was sent by your Essex County, NJ, DFA organizer,
Katherine Joyce.
Two bills will be presented to the NJ legislature on Monday, December 3 that are vitally important to preserving the legitimacy and security of our vote.
The first — S507 — is sponsored by Nia Gill, and requires the mandatory audit of election results in randomly selected election districts. The “official” election bureaucracy in the state, under Assistant Attorney General Donna Kelly in the Division of Elections, is out to defeat this bill. We’ve all seen Kelly’s handiwork before — she must be stopped!
Link to S507
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/S1000/507_I1.HTM
***ACTION***
PLEASE call our legislators (starting with Codey - 973-731-6770; FAX 973-731-0647; SenCodey@njleg.org) to demand they support this bill AS IS.
The second bill — S2949 — described by the following message which was sent to many activists yesterday — would try to push through the Senate Government committee a new waiver provision to the original voter verified paper record bill that was enacted over two years ago that, in effect, would not only extend the time for compliance fromthis January to next June, but also would expand the language to give the AG more leeway to DO NOTHING - that is, to never ensure that NJ citizens have the opportunity to verify their vote on a paper record that would be then be randomly audited (pursuant to S.507 that is also up for a hearing and vote on Monday).
Link to S2949
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/S3000/2949_I1.HTM
FROM YESTERDAY’S ALERT MESSAGE:
“Specifically, the bill allows for an extension of the VVPR requirement from January 1, 2008 to June 3, 2008. At the time, if the technology to produce a VVPR is not commercially available, the AG will provide a waiver of the June deadline. “Not commercially available” means not certified by NJ. So, basically, it is an open-ended extension to Sequoia to continue to use its Advantage machine through the November 08 presidential election.”
***ACTION***
Accordingly, the senate sponsor of the original VVPR (and of the proposed audit bill), Senator Nia Gill, could use the support of all citizens who lobbied for the VVPR requirement to testify AGAINST an
expanded waiver bill and to advocate FOR her proposed audit bill.
Please come out on December 3, at 10:00 am to testify in support of the audit bill, S.507, and against the expanded waiver set forth in the S. 2949, attached hereto. If you cannot be there in person, please act now to contact the legislators on the committee -
Weinberg (201-928-0100; Senweinberg@njleg.org)
Coniglio (201-576-9199; Senconiglio@njleg.org)
Scutari (908-587-0404; Senscutari@njleg.org)
Connors (Leonard) (609-693-6700; SenConnors@njleg.org), and
Asselta (856-691-3004; SenAsselta@njleg.org)
- and let them know what you think.
Thanks for all you do!
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