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Action Page! more information Contact Senator Bennett and Hatch and your Representative and ask them to support S559 in the Senate and HR811 in the House. Senate.gov and www.house.gov Utah considered bid proposals for voting machines from Diebold and ES&S. Utah's Lt. Governor selected Diebold E-Voting Machines which were widely reported since early 2003 to be susceptible to election tampering, do Not meet HAVA Requirements for all disabled voters as well as other choices. All Utah computer professionals who testified recommended against purchasing DRE voting machines. Diebold did Not provide a Demonstrated Method for Independent Recounts. (no paper roll advancer or open source bar code reader was demonstrated) Diebold had five paid lobbyists in Utah and used the same lobbying firm as Salt Lake County. Both vendors' DRE voting machines use paper-rolls-under-glass voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT). However, ES&S, to its credit, demonstrated a more secure DRE and an open source system for independently auditing it and an Op Scan paper ballot system that is considerably less expensive to operate, better for the disabled, and easy to hand count to check machine accuracy.

• The Utah Election Office select "other elections information" elections@utah.gov or Amy Naccarato, Director of Elections, 801-538-1041, 115 State Capitol Bldg, SLC, UT 84114 Utah Voting Equipment Selection Committee
• Utah Association of Counties Utah's publicly elected election officials are the county clerks. County commissioners hold the purse strings. (Some counties have council members instead of commissioners.) Please make an appointment to speak in person with your county clerk. Listen to your clerk and provide information to them. Make a presentation to your county commissioners/council members at their next meeting. (I have spoken with Summit County Commissioners already.) Here is what what Utah's RFP Amendment says about the counties.
• Governor
• Lt. Governors have official authority over elections in Utah.
• Utah State Senators
• Utah State Represenatives
• Find your Utah State Legislatures' Senators and Representatives
• Our Community Connection

A DVD demonstrating how to change the election results in under 2 minutes on Diebold's central tabulator is available from claire@wanderingstar.com

• How Can We Ensure the Accuracy of Vote Counts?
• Materials for your county commissioners or county clerks
  
• Voters Unite materials
• one page flier.

You may mail this easy pre-addressed letter to your county election official to say "I want a hand-countable voter-verified (auditable) paper ballot. I do not want my ballot to be electronic".

Write letters to the Editor. Contact radio stations. Ask Utah's press to cover voting machine issues:

• Utah Newspapers, TV, and Radio

Talking Points:
• Maintain Utah's excellent reputation for fair, honest, accurate elections.
• Don't buy flawed overpriced voting equipment.
• Use recognized computer scientists who are voting system experts with no conflict of interest, and security and testing experts to evaluate Utah's selection.
• Follow the advice of Utah's computer science professors utahcountvotes.org/summary_response.php
• Participate in multi-state open source development efforts such as utahcountvotes.org/UVES_concept.pdf

Help the National Effort to Ensure Elections are Fair & Accurate
• Donate to the National Election Data Archive project
• Voter Protection Click on Volunteer Now.
• Election Protection Project
• Verified Voting
• Ask Utah's U.S. Senators and House Representatives to pass HR2239 or S1980 to require public programming instructions and voter verified paper ballots for voting machines.

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