I've been a little busy lately (there's a series of holidays coming up, don't know if you heard) so I've not been blogging as much as I'd like about the HR 550 petition and push. So, here's some catching up:
1. Gettin' Randi Rhodes on board. Randi Rhodes has a show on Air America Radio and has been a target of emails requesting she spend some time covering HR 550 and verified voting issues. If you click on that link up there, there's a poll near the bottom right about issues listeners would like to hear, and Voter Fraud is on the list. If you can find it in your heart to poll for that, and maybe send her an rejected the changes their Senate made to their election reform bill, which means HB3 will not be acted on- until next year, that is, when the changes will be negotiated. Maybe the spirit of a New Year will let them look at this bill again and take out the most disasterous portions of it. Well, one can hope.
2. No Go in Ohio. Ohio's House of Representatives rejected changes their Senate made to their election reform bill and then went to recess, so no action on HB3 will happen this year. Maybe the freshness of a new year will make the lawmakers there review this bill and remove the most disasterous parts of it. Well, one can hope, anyway.
3. Blogswarm Listing. I had a list going of blogs which have posts about HR 550, and it's been so long since I updated it that it would take forever. Luckily, DBK over at Blanton's and Ashton's has a great list which he does keep updated so I don't have to.
So, again I say, if you haven't signed the petition, go do so right now. It's too important to just brush by. Thanks!
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3 comments:
Thanks, Sharon.
Blogswarming? Is that like housewarming?
Blogswarming is a group of blogs, hopefully with somewhat diverse readers, getting together and posting on a particular topic to get more buzz and attention to it, with the goal of making a change.
(Wow, I did that off the top of my head. I'm impressed. I even think it's right.)
Rep. Rush Holt proposed HR 550 quite some time ago and it got stuck in committee. It should be law. A large group of bloggers, headed up by DBK from Blanton's and Ashtons, are pushing to get the issue in the light. Votes should be verifiable. This should have been law long before electronic voting became the norm. But the bill is being held up. What are the Republican Committee heads afraid of?
Please, all, if you haven't signed the petition, do so now. If you have, great! Now write your representatives and get them on board too. All the links are in posts on this page, so you can read up on it and see why this bill has bi-partisan support and 160 co-sponsors.
(Stepping back off soapbox.)
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