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Thank you Rep. Murphy for your service to our country and for being among the first Pennsylvanians in Congress to cosponsor HR 5036, the Emergency Assistance for Secure Elections Act, as introduced by our fellow Democrat Rush Holt of NJ.
If we do not have secure and accurately counted elections, the changes we need to make in our country will become impossible and our democracy will no longer exist. Thank you for recognizing this fact, and for supporting this new "opt-in" bill that will allow counties to protect the 2008 election in the way that makes the most sense for their own local citizens, be it optical scan voting systems with voter-marked paper ballots, emergency paper ballots for use if electronic machines break on election day, or audits or hand counts or the results.
I hope that the rest of the PA Delegation to Congress will join you and cosponsor HR 5036 ASAP -- and that our own Bob Brady will move this excellent bill rapidly out of his committee and to the House floor as introduced without amendment -- so that every county that wants these protections will have them in time for November.
I also invite all my fellow rank-and-file Democrats to get involved and help with our elections this year as a pollworker or as one of our pollwatchers.
Our democracy is worth every effort we make to protect it!
Thank you again, for recognizing this and for your cosponsorship of HR 5036.
Marybeth Kuznik
State Committee Member, Westmoreland County
Elected Majority Inspector of Elections, Penn Twp 4-2
(Any reader wanting more information about HR 5036 please go to http://www.VotePA.us )
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Posted by marybethkuznik on March 4, 2008 - 5:29pm.
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Thank you Rep. Murphy for your service to our country and for being among the first Pennsylvanians in Congress to cosponsor HR 5036, the Emergency Assistance for Secure Elections Act, as introduced by our fellow Democrat Rush Holt of NJ.
If we do not have secure and accurately counted elections, the changes we need to make in our country will become impossible and our democracy will no longer exist. Thank you for recognizing this fact, and for supporting this new "opt-in" bill that will allow counties to protect the 2008 election in the way that makes the most sense for their own local citizens, be it optical scan voting systems with voter-marked paper ballots, emergency paper ballots for use if electronic machines break on election day, or audits or hand counts or the results.
I hope that the rest of the PA Delegation to Congress will join you and cosponsor HR 5036 ASAP -- and that our own Bob Brady will move this excellent bill rapidly out of his committee and to the House floor as introduced without amendment -- so that every county that wants these protections will have them in time for November.
I also invite all my fellow rank-and-file Democrats to get involved and help with our elections this year as a pollworker or as one of our pollwatchers.
Our democracy is worth every effort we make to protect it!
Thank you again, for recognizing this and for your cosponsorship of HR 5036.
Marybeth Kuznik
State Committee Member, Westmoreland County
Elected Majority Inspector of Elections, Penn Twp 4-2
(Any reader wanting more information about HR 5036 please go to http://www.VotePA.us )
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