No registered voter should ever be turned away from the polls without being allowed to cast a vote. Yet this happened time and again in primary elections this year when electronic voting machines failed to operate in even their usual untrustworthy, nontransparent manner. That’s why Velvet Revolution and BradBlog have enlisted organizations and leaders all over the country to insist on the availability of emergency paper ballots for the November 7 election. This campaign is part of our Election Protection Strike Force.
Last week we sent a letter to all 50 Governors, Secretaries of State and State Election Directors urging them to provide emergency paper ballots for the November election. This letter was signed by over 50 organizations and leadersfrom around the country, including Senator Barbara Boxer, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Florida’s Ion Sancho. The text of the letter appears below with the full list of signatories.
States are beginning to respond. In California all counties have been told to make paper ballots available at all polling places, although the specifics of the directive from the Secretary of State’s office are problematic.
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