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<title>Tell your Senator to Support Emergency Paper Ballots</title>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Congress recess end of this week. Contact
your congresspeople now. Lee L<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
alerts@truemajorityaction.org [mailto:alerts@truemajorityaction.org] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, September 27,
2006 10:56 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Lee Loe<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> A Surprise Chance to
Protect the Election</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'><img width=592 height=82 id="_x0000_i1025"
src="https://img.getactivehub.com/gv2/custom_images/truemajorityaction/TMActionLogo.gif"
alt=TrueMajorityACTION align=middle border=0><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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  face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Voting
  Machines Break. Paper Doesn't</span></font></b><font color=black
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  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Dear Lee, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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      href="http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/stoprumsfeld/w3i58ksrz5biij8?"></a><a
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      Congress is about to go home, but first tell them to <strong><b><font
      face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana'>protect the election</span></font></b></strong>
      by providing money for emergency paper ballots.</span></font><font
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  <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'>Paperless electronic voting machines will be used once
  again this fall, and already during the primaries they failed. In <st1:State
  w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Maryland</st1:place></st1:State> crowds of
  legal voters were turned away from the polls when the machines couldn't be
  started<sup>1</sup>.</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'>There's a simple safeguard – have enough paper
  ballots on hand so the election can go forward even if the machines let us
  down again. Obvious, right? Senators Boxer (D-CA) and Dodd (D-CT) have
  introduced a last-minute bill which would provide money to any state that is
  willing to print up the paper ballots. It's cheap, it's easy, and there's no
  reason not to do it. <strong><b><font face=Verdana><span style='font-family:
  Verdana'>But time is short</span></font></b></strong>.</span></font><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'> <a
  href="http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/paper_ballot_c4/w3i58ksrz5biij8?"><strong><b><font
  color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Tell
  your Senator to support the emergency paper ballot bill.</span></font></b></strong></a></span></font><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'><a
  href="http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/paper_ballot_c4/w3i58ksrz5biij8?"><span
  style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=100 height=25
  id="_x0000_i1028" src="http://img.getactivehub.com/images/btn-take-action.gif"></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'>TrueMajorityACTION started calling attention to the
  dangers of paperless electronic voting back in 2004 with our "Computer
  Ate My Vote" campaign. Many more states now require paper records of our
  votes, but still an alarming 40% of ballots will be cast on electronic voting
  machines this November<sup>2</sup>. Even <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
   w:st="on">Maryland</st1:place></st1:State>'s Republican Governor is now
  calling for a return to paper ballots<sup>3</sup>. We'll keep working with
  our partners in the movement to make sure all states eventually require a
  voter-verified paper record of every vote. In the meantime, though, the
  Boxer-Dodd plan is a good backup.</span></font><font size=2 color=black
  face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'>The election is in weeks, and Congress adjourns in days
  -- <a
  href="http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/paper_ballot_c4/w3i58ksrz5biij8?"><strong><b><font
  color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Send a
  message now</span></font></b></strong></a> and tell the Senate to protect our
  votes.</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'>Then, <a
  href="http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/paper_ballot_c4/forward/w3i58ksrz5biij8?"><font
  color=blue><span style='color:blue'>forward this message</span></font></a> on
  to your friends, so they can sign on too. Don't wait.</span></font><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'>Matt Holland<br>
  TrueMajorityACTION Online Director</span></font><font size=2 color=black
  face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'>1 - <a
  href="http://www.thesentinel.com/295412252776619.php"><font color=blue><span
  style='color:blue'>The Sentinel</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'>2 - <a
  href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/washington/27ballotscnd.html"><font
  color=blue><span style='color:blue'>New York Times</span></font></a>, 26
  September 2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'>3 - <a
  href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/us/politics/24voting.html"><font
  color=blue><span style='color:blue'>New York Times</span></font></a>, 24
  September 2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'><a
  href="http://www.sensiblepriorities.org/pdf/chan_r2.pdf"></a></span></font><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'>Here's the message we'll send your Senators</span></font></b></strong><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'> (<a
  href="http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/paper_ballot_c4/w3i58ksrz5biij8?"><font
  color=blue><span style='color:blue'>click here</span></font></a> to edit the
  message):</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'>I know there is a lot to do in the final days of the
  Congressional session, but I strongly urge you to work to support the
  Boxer-Dodd emergency legislation for paper ballots. I know that when the
  voting machines couldn't be started in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Maryland</st1:place></st1:State>
  earlier this month, voters were turned away from the polls. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
  size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
  Verdana;color:black'>That's the worst thing that can happen in a democratic
  election, and it's outrageous to let it happen simply because someone didn't
  print enough backup ballots. You're still in session for a few more days.
  Please put them to good use in protecting our votes with this common-sense
  solution.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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