CALL TO ACTION: Paper Trail For ALL Florida Elections
Freedom Democrats have not, as an organization, taken a postion on the following Call To Action, but encourage all Florida residents to understand the importace of the issue and act accordingly.
The Florida's Voter Coalition has made it very easy to petition your government official on election reform. Please see entire entry below.
CALL TO ACTION
The following is presented and written by:
Voting Integrity Alliance of Tampa Bay
Pamela Haengel, President
Co-Founder, Florida Voters Coalition
www.VIATampaBay.org
Office (727) 821-1116
Cell (727) 244-9064
Fax (727) 896-4132
The Florida Voters Coalition, Florida’s largest non-partisan coalition seeking sound election reform, announces the launch of its Go All The Way Florida Campaign to press the State of Florida to make essential improvements to Governor Crist’s announced “paper trail” plan and the current bill language that will implement it. While the Governor’s plan certainly moves in the right direction it falls short in several essential areas presented clearly and briefly in our Position Paper (appended at the bottom of this email).
FVC will hold a press conference in Tallahassee on Monday to formally announce the campaign, between a battery of appointments with legislators and state officials.
We need your help to let Tallahassee hear from voters!
We’ll have to be very loud to be heard over all that money changing hands. So here’s what we need you, your friends, and your organizations to do to really pull the trigger on this campaign over Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and later if you’re not able to do it sooner. Also, it will help to keep the pressure up right through ‘till the end of session on 4 May so keep looking for ways to shout it from the rooftops – you are watching and you want them to Go All The Way!
Sample letters to cut and paste can be found below. Scroll down to the one you want. Don’t be afraid to do a couple now and come back and do a couple more later. Thanks!
* Contact the Governor (mail, fax or phone here: <http://www.flgov.com/contact_form> (don’t use the form) – or email here: <mailto:Charlie.Crist@myflorida.com> )
* Contact the Secretary of State ( <http://oss.dos.state.fl.us/contact-sos.cfm> fax or phone here – or email here: <mailto:secretaryofstate@dos.state.fl.us> )
* Contact your State Senator ( <http://flsenate.gov/Legislators/index.cfm?Mode=Find%20Your%20Legislators&Submenu=3&Tab=legislators&CFID=32266127&CFTOKEN=72709096> here’s how (use the USPS zip+4 lookup service))
* Contact your State Representative (here’s how (use the USPS zip+4 lookup service))
Tell all of them that you want Florida officials to Go All The Way. (use Go All The Way in your Re: or Subject lines) Sample letters are included below. Tell them you support the FVC 2007 Position Paper on Voting Systems. Letters and faxes are best. Phone calls are next best. E-mails never hurt but are more easily ignored. It’s always OK to attach the Position Paper.
Our www.GoAllTheWayFlorida.com: <http://www.goallthewayflorida.com/> website should be up by Monday and a good source for news and links. If you have questions about the campaign, please call our Legislative Liaison, Rebecca Sager, at 850-391-0784.
Thank you from all of us at FVC and all voters in Florida and beyond!
Endorsements – As of 6 April 2007
National Organizations - Alphabetical by Organization
* Ralph Miller, Executive Director, <http://www.latinosforamerica.com/> Latinos for America
* Megan Matson, Director, <http://www.themmob.org/> Mainstreet Moms
* Becky Bond, Co-Director, <http://www.pollworkersfordemocracy.com/> Pollworkers for Democracy
* Pamela Smith, President, <http://www.verifiedvoting.org/> VerifiedVoting.org
* Dan McCrea, Florida State Director, <http://www.verifiedvoting.org/> Voter Action
* John Gideon, Executive Director, <http://www.votersunite.org/> VotersUnite.org
* Joan Krawitz, Executive Director, <http://www.votetrustusa.org/> VoteTrustUSA
State of Florida Organizations - Alphabetical by Organization
* Howard Simon, Executive Director, ACLU of
Florida: <http://www.aclufl.org/>
* Jeannette D. Wynn, President, Florida Council of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees: <http://www.afscmefl.org/> (AFSCME)
* Cynthia Hall, President, Florida AFL-CIO: <http://www.flaflcio.org/>
* Ellen Brodsky, Executive Director, Broward Election Reform Coalition: <http://www.browardelectionreform.org/> (BERC)
* Ben Wilcox, Executive Director, <http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=1699525> Common Cause Florida
* Susan Pynchon, Executive Director, <http://www.floridafairelections.org/> Florida Fair Elections Coalition (FFEC)
* Ion Sancho, Supervisor of Elections, Leon County Department of Elections: <http://www.leoncountyfl.gov/elect/Index.asp?page=links.asp>
* Trevor Harvey, President, <http://www.naacp.org/community/> Sarasota County Branch, NAACP
* Susan Van Houten, Co-Founder, Palm Beach Coalition for Election Reform
* Brad Ashwell, <http://www.floridapirg.org/> Florida Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)
* Kindra Muntz, President, Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections: <http://www.safevote.org/> (SAFE)
* Sevell C. Brown III, Florida State President, <http://sclcnational.org/net/content/default.aspx?s=0.0.12.2607> Southern Christian Leadership Conference
* Jim Pillow, Political Coordinator, Teamsters Local 385 Orlando: <http://www.local385.org/>
* Fred Seidl, Coordinator, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry, Florida: <http://www.floridadistrict.org/>
* Gene Jones, Florida Veterans for Common Sense: <http://www.floridaveteransforcommonsense.org/>
* Pamela Haengel, President, <http://www.viatampabay.org/> Voting Integrity Alliance of Tampa Bay (VIA Tampa Bay)
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Sample letter to the GOVERNOR below – Just cut and paste and off you go
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Date:
Re: SUPPORT for the Florida Voters Coalition Go All The Way Campaign
Dear Governor Crist,
I’m writing to express my strong support for the Florida Voters Coalition (FVC) Go All The Way Campaign. I applaud your initiative to restore voter confidence in Florida’s beleaguered elections. At the same time, I can’t see why you would leave the disabled behind or leave a meaningful audit requirement under-specified or allow audit reporting after certification of the election it’s meant to check, and a recount law gutted in 2005. Why not Go All The Way?
All voters deserve a paper ballot. Why leave disabled voters voting as second class citizens? Why throw good money after bad trying to rig touchscreen DREs with printers, or buying whole new DREs when digital ballots are fit for no one? Why waste those HAVA dollars? Why leave our election laws shot full of the holes made by stretching them trying to accommodate digital ballots? Why burden counties with the cost and headaches of running dual systems? Why leave Florida elections loaded with glitches poised to be the embarrassments of tomorrow? Why not Go All They Way when the plan goes so far in the right direction?
All elections deserve meaningful audits. Why provide for audits, which I applaud, but stop short of requiring that they are statistically significant audits – yielding a confidence level – instead of fixed percentage audits when any statistician can explain why one size cannot fit all election? And why would we report audit findings after certification? Would you like a letter from your bank telling you that their audit revealed last month’s mistakes but this is just an FYI because it’s too late to correct the mistakes? Why not Go All The Way to provide statistically significant audits and ensure they find and correct problems in the election on which they are performed?
All elections deserve recounts that work. Florida’s recount law needs to be amended to restore its purpose of more closely checking a tight election. It was gutted in 2005, largely to accommodate the impossibilities placed on it by digital ballots. All the 2005 gutting accomplished was to produce the inadequate recount we observed in Sarasota. Why not Go All The Way to restoring voter confidence in Florida elections which would be assisted greatly by restoring a valid recount law?
Voters in future elections deserve a proactive government that works for them. So much has changed since the rude awakening of the 2000 election. Technology and the laws that govern its use, as well as administrations that conduct our elections, have all changed significantly. During that time, it doesn’t appear that voters have been the first concern of Florida’s efforts to solicit, test, and certify new and innovative voting systems. Disabled and language minority voters, the elderly, and ethnic minority voters have routinely suffered the greatest disenfranchisement during this upheaval of change. All Florida’s future voters deserve better. Florida officials at both state and county levels need to Go All The Way in both word and deed to assure future Florida voters that voters will come first – all voters equally – all voters together.
I look forward to seeing my reply from you in the legislation passed and changes implemented. I shall be watching how my state and local officials vote on this matter. I shall vote for them depending on how they vote for me.
Thank you for your consideration of these matters. Please read the FVC Position Paper and don’t stop short of implementing the secure and equitable elections it prescribes. Florida mustn’t stop short. Now is the time to Go All The Way Florida!
Very truly yours,
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Sample letter to the SECRETARY OF STATE below – Just cut and paste and off you go
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Date:
Re: SUPPORT for the Florida Voters Coalition Go All The Way Campaign
Dear Secretary Browning,
I’m writing to express my strong support for the Florida Voters Coalition (FVC) Go All The Way Campaign. I applaud the Governor’s initiative to restore voter confidence in Florida’s beleaguered elections. At the same time, I can’t see why you would leave the disabled behind or leave a meaningful audit requirement under-specified or allow audit reporting after certification of the election it’s meant to check, and a recount law gutted in 2005. Why not Go All The Way?
All voters deserve a paper ballot. Why leave disabled voters voting as second class citizens? Why throw good money after bad trying to rig touchscreen DREs with printers, or buying whole new DREs when digital ballots are fit for no one? Why waste those HAVA dollars? Why leave our election laws shot full of the holes made by stretching them trying to accommodate digital ballots? Why burden counties with the cost and headaches of running dual systems? Why leave Florida elections loaded with glitches poised to be the embarrassments of tomorrow? Why not Go All They Way when the plan goes so far in the right direction?
All elections deserve meaningful audits. Why provide for audits, which I applaud, but stop short of requiring that they are statistically significant audits – yielding a confidence level – instead of fixed percentage audits when any statistician can explain why one size cannot fit all elections.. And why would we report audit findings after certification? Would you like a letter from your bank telling you that their audit revealed last month’s mistakes but this is just an FYI because it’s too late to correct the mistakes? Why not Go All The Way to provide statistically significant audits and ensure they find and correct problems in the election on which they are performed?
All elections deserve recounts that work. Florida’s recount law needs to be amended to restore its purpose of more closely checking a tight election. It was gutted in 2005, largely to accommodate the impossibilities placed on it by digital ballots. All the 2005 gutting accomplished was to produce the inadequate recount we observed in Sarasota. Why not Go All The Way to restoring voter confidence in Florida elections which would be assisted greatly by restoring a valid recount law?
Voters in future elections deserve a proactive government that works for them. So much has changed since the rude awakening of the 2000 election. Technology and the laws that govern its use, as well as administrations that conduct our elections, have all changed significantly. During that time, it doesn’t appear that voters have been the first concern of Florida’s efforts to solicit, test, and certify new and innovative voting systems. Disabled and language minority voters, the elderly, and ethnic minority voters have routinely suffered the greatest disenfranchisement during this upheaval of change. All Florida’s future voters deserve better. Florida officials at both state and county levels need to Go All The Way in both word and deed to assure future Florida voters that voters will come first – all voters equally – all voters together.
I look forward to seeing my reply from you in the legislation passed and changes implemented. I shall be watching how my state and local officials vote on this matter. I shall vote for them depending on how they vote for me.
Thank you for your consideration of these matters. Please read the FVC Position Paper and don’t stop short of implementing the secure and equitable elections it prescribes. Florida mustn’t stop short. Now is the time to Go All The Way Florida!
Very truly yours,
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Sample letter to your STATE SENATOR below – Just cut and paste and off you go
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Date:
Re: SUPPORT for the Florida Voters Coalition Go All The Way Campaign
Dear Senator _____________,
I’m writing to express my strong support for the Florida Voters Coalition (FVC) Go All The Way Campaign. I applaud Governor Crist’s initiative to restore voter confidence in Florida’s beleaguered elections. At the same time, I can’t see why our state would leave the disabled behind or leave a meaningful audit requirement under-specified or allow audit reporting after certification of the election it’s meant to check, and a recount law gutted in 2005. Why not Go All The Way?
All voters deserve a paper ballot. Why leave disabled voters voting as second class citizens? Why throw good money after bad trying to rig touchscreen DREs with printers, or buying whole new DREs when digital ballots are fit for no one? Why waste those HAVA dollars? Why leave our election laws shot full of the holes made by stretching them trying to accommodate digital ballots? Why burden counties with the cost and headaches of running dual systems? Why leave Florida elections loaded with glitches poised to be the embarrassments of tomorrow? Why not Go All They Way when the plan goes so far in the right direction?
All elections deserve meaningful audits. Why provide for audits, which I applaud, but stop short of requiring that they are statistically significant audits – yielding a confidence level – instead of fixed percentage audits when any statistician can explain why one size cannot fit all elections. And why would we report audit findings after certification? Would you like a letter from your bank telling you that their audit revealed last month’s mistakes but this is just an FYI because it’s too late to correct the mistakes? Why not Go All The Way to provide statistically significant audits and ensure they find and correct problems in the election on which they are performed?
All elections deserve recounts that work. Florida’s recount law needs to be amended to restore its purpose of more closely checking a tight election. It was gutted in 2005, largely to accommodate the impossibilities placed on it by digital ballots. All the 2005 gutting accomplished was to produce the inadequate recount we observed in Sarasota. Why not Go All The Way to restoring voter confidence in Florida elections which would be assisted greatly by restoring a valid recount law?
Voters in future elections deserve a proactive government that works for them. So much has changed since the rude awakening of the 2000 election. Technology and the laws that govern its use, as well as administrations that conduct our elections, have all changed significantly. During that time, it doesn’t appear that voters have been the first concern of Florida’s efforts to solicit, test, and certify new and innovative voting systems. Disabled and language minority voters, the elderly, and ethnic minority voters have routinely suffered the greatest disenfranchisement during this upheaval of change. All Florida’s future voters deserve better. Florida officials at both state and county levels need to Go All The Way in both word and deed to assure future Florida voters that voters will come first – all voters equally – all voters together.
I look forward to seeing my reply from you in the legislation passed and changes implemented. I shall be watching how my state and local officials vote on this matter. I shall vote for them depending on how they vote for me.
Thank you for your consideration of these matters. Please read the FVC Position Paper and don’t stop short of implementing the secure and equitable elections it prescribes. Florida mustn’t stop short. Now is the time to Go All The Way Florida!
Very truly yours,
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Sample letter to your STATE REPRESENTATIVE below – Just cut and paste and off you go
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Date:
Re: SUPPORT for the Florida Voters Coalition Go All The Way Campaign
Dear Representative ______________,
I’m writing to express my strong support for the Florida Voters Coalition (FVC) Go All The Way Campaign. I applaud Governor’s Crist’s initiative to restore voter confidence in Florida’s beleaguered elections. At the same time, I can’t see why our state would leave the disabled behind or leave a meaningful audit requirement under-specified or allow audit reporting after certification of the election it’s meant to check, and a recount law gutted in 2005. Why not Go All The Way?
All voters deserve a paper ballot. Why leave disabled voters voting as second class citizens? Why throw good money after bad trying to rig touchscreen DREs with printers, or buying whole new DREs when digital ballots are fit for no one? Why waste those HAVA dollars? Why leave our election laws shot full of the holes made by stretching them trying to accommodate digital ballots? Why burden counties with the cost and headaches of running dual systems? Why leave Florida elections loaded with glitches poised to be the embarrassments of tomorrow? Why not Go All They Way when the plan goes so far in the right direction?
All elections deserve meaningful audits. Why provide for audits, which I applaud, but stop short of requiring that they are statistically significant audits – yielding a confidence level – instead of fixed percentage audits when any statistician can explain why one size cannot fit all elections. And why would we report audit findings after certification? Would you like a letter from your bank telling you that their audit revealed last month’s mistakes but this is just an FYI because it’s too late to correct the mistakes? Why not Go All The Way to provide statistically significant audits and ensure they find and correct problems in the election on which they are performed?
All elections deserve recounts that work. Florida’s recount law needs to be amended to restore its purpose of more closely checking a tight election. It was gutted in 2005, largely to accommodate the impossibilities placed on it by digital ballots. All the 2005 gutting accomplished was to produce the inadequate recount we observed in Sarasota. Why not Go All The Way to restoring voter confidence in Florida elections which would be assisted greatly by restoring a valid recount law?
Voters in future elections deserve a proactive government that works for them. So much has changed since the rude awakening of the 2000 election. Technology and the laws that govern its use, as well as administrations that conduct our elections, have all changed significantly. During that time, it doesn’t appear that voters have been the first concern of Florida’s efforts to solicit, test, and certify new and innovative voting systems. Disabled and language minority voters, the elderly, and ethnic minority voters have routinely suffered the greatest disenfranchisement during this upheaval of change. All Florida’s future voters deserve better. Florida officials at both state and county levels need to Go All The Way in both word and deed to assure future Florida voters that voters will come first – all voters equally – all voters together.
I look forward to seeing my reply from you in the legislation passed and changes implemented. I shall be watching how my state and local officials vote on this matter. I shall vote for them depending on how they vote for me..
Thank you for your consideration of these matters. Please read the FVC Position Paper and don’t stop short of implementing the secure and equitable elections it prescribes. Florida mustn’t stop short. Now is the time to Go All The Way Florida!
Very truly yours,
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Sample letter to your LOCAL NEWSPAPER below – Just cut and paste and off you go
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Date:
Re: SUPPORT for the Florida Voters Coalition Go All The Way Campaign
Dear Editor,
I’m writing to express my strong support for the Florida Voters Coalition (FVC) Go All The Way Campaign. I applaud Governor Crist’s initiative to restore voter confidence in Florida’s beleaguered elections. At the same time, I can’t see why our state would leave the disabled behind or leave a meaningful audit requirement under-specified or allow audit reporting after certification of the election it’s meant to check, and a recount law gutted in 2005.. Why not Go All The Way?
All voters deserve a paper ballot. Why leave disabled voters voting as second class citizens? Why throw good money after bad trying to rig touchscreen DREs with printers, or buying whole new DREs when digital ballots are fit for no one? Why waste those HAVA dollars? Why leave our election laws shot full of the holes made by stretching them trying to accommodate digital ballots? Why burden counties with the cost and headaches of running dual systems? Why leave Florida elections loaded with glitches poised to be the embarrassments of tomorrow? Why not Go All They Way when the plan goes so far in the right direction?
All elections deserve meaningful audits. Why provide for audits, which I applaud, but stop short of requiring that they are statistically significant audits – yielding a confidence level – instead of fixed percentage audits when any statistician can explain why one size cannot fit all elections. And why would we report audit findings after certification? Would you like a letter from your bank telling you that their audit revealed last month’s mistakes but this is just an FYI because it’s too late to correct the mistakes? Why not Go All The Way to provide statistically significant audits and ensure they find and correct problems in the election on which they are performed?
All elections deserve recounts that work. Florida’s recount law needs to be amended to restore its purpose of more closely checking a tight election. It was gutted in 2005, largely to accommodate the impossibilities placed on it by digital ballots. All the 2005 gutting accomplished was to produce the inadequate recount we observed in Sarasota. Why not Go All The Way to restoring voter confidence in Florida elections which would be assisted greatly by restoring a valid recount law?
Voters in future elections deserve a proactive government that works for them. So much has changed since the rude awakening of the 2000 election. Technology and the laws that govern its use, as well as administrations that conduct our elections, have all changed significantly. During that time, it doesn’t appear that voters have been the first concern of Florida’s efforts to solicit, test, and certify new and innovative voting systems. Disabled and language minority voters, the elderly, and ethnic minority voters have routinely suffered the greatest disenfranchisement during this upheaval of change. All Florida’s future voters deserve better. Florida officials at both state and county levels need to Go All The Way in both word and deed to assure future Florida voters that voters will come first – all voters equally – all voters together.
I look forward to seeing my reply in the legislation passed and changes implemented.. I shall be watching how my state and local officials vote on this matter. I shall vote for them depending on how they vote for me.
Thank you for your consideration of these matters. Please read the FVC Position Paper and stand with Florida's voters in demanding that our elected officials implement the secure and equitable elections it prescribes. Florida mustn’t stop short. Now is the time to Go All The Way Florida!
Very truly yours,
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Sample letter to your COUNTY OFFICIALS below – Just cut and paste and off you go
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Date:
Re: SUPPORT for the Florida Voters Coalition Go All The Way Campaign
Dear ________________________,
I’m writing to express my strong support for the Florida Voters Coalition (FVC) Go All The Way Campaign. I applaud Governor Crist’s initiative to restore voter confidence in Florida’s beleaguered elections. At the same time, I can’t see why our state would leave the disabled behind or leave a meaningful audit requirement under-specified or allow audit reporting after certification of the election it’s meant to check, and a recount law gutted in 2005. Why not Go All The Way?
All voters deserve a paper ballot. Why leave disabled voters voting as second class citizens? Why throw good money after bad trying to rig touchscreen DREs with printers, or buying whole new DREs when digital ballots are fit for no one? Why waste those HAVA dollars? Why leave our election laws shot full of the holes made by stretching them trying to accommodate digital ballots? Why burden counties with the cost and headaches of running dual systems? Why leave Florida elections loaded with glitches poised to be the embarrassments of tomorrow? Why not Go All They Way when the plan goes so far in the right direction?
All elections deserve meaningful audits. Why provide for audits, which I applaud, but stop short of requiring that they are statistically significant audits – yielding a confidence level – instead of fixed percentage audits when any statistician can explain why one size cannot fit all elections. And why would we report audit findings after certification? Would you like a letter from your bank telling you that their audit revealed last month’s mistakes but this is just an FYI because it’s too late to correct the mistakes? Why not Go All The Way to provide statistically significant audits and ensure they find and correct problems in the election on which they are performed?
All elections deserve recounts that work. Florida’s recount law needs to be amended to restore its purpose of more closely checking a tight election. It was gutted in 2005, largely to accommodate the impossibilities placed on it by digital ballots. All the 2005 gutting accomplished was to produce the inadequate recount we observed in Sarasota. Why not Go All The Way to restoring voter confidence in Florida elections which would be assisted greatly by restoring a valid recount law?
Voters in future elections deserve a proactive government that works for them. So much has changed since the rude awakening of the 2000 election. Technology and the laws that govern its use, as well as administrations that conduct our elections, have all changed significantly. During that time, it doesn’t appear that voters have been the first concern of Florida’s efforts to solicit, test, and certify new and innovative voting systems. Disabled and language minority voters, the elderly, and ethnic minority voters have routinely suffered the greatest disenfranchisement during this upheaval of change. All Florida’s future voters deserve better. Florida officials at both state and county levels need to Go All The Way in both word and deed to assure future Florida voters that voters will come first – all voters equally – all voters together.
I look forward to seeing my reply in the legislation passed and changes implemented. I shall be watching how my state and local officials vote on this matter. I shall vote for them depending on how they vote for me.
Thank you for your consideration of these matters. Please read the FVC Position Paper and join Florida's voters in demanding that all of our elected officials implement the secure and equitable elections it prescribes. Florida mustn’t stop short. Now is the time to Go All The Way Florida!
Very truly yours,
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Florida Voters Coalition 2007 Position Paper on Voting Systems below – For your reference
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Florida Voters Coalition
2007 Position Paper on Voting Systems 15 March 2007 Revision – Endorsers as of 6 April
The Florida Voters Coalition (FVC) calls on Florida officials to return elections to their rightful owners – the voters – in 2007. Currently, Florida’s elections are unreasonably controlled by private, corporate interests and conducted by secret, unverifiable means. The Governor, Legislature and Department of State all have roles in reversing this unwholesome trend by returning the conduct of Florida elections to transparent, citizen-run, local affairs in the most fundamental traditions of 230 years of American democracy. Florida voters demand that their officials once again actively advocate for them – not vendors, not political parties – but Florida’s voters.
These are the top six measures that The Florida Voters Coalition calls on the Executive and Legislative branches to work together to accomplish, at the very least, during the 2007 legislative session. We look forward to working with the State of Florida and other institutions, private and public, toward these and other positive reforms.
1. Make voter verified paper ballots (VVPB)--hereinafter defined as durable paper ballots, hand marked by the voter or by a certified non-tabulating ballot-marking device--the official record of every vote. Optical Scan VVPB systems with suitable ballot marking devices comply with this standard. Direct Recording Electronic devices (DREs) fitted with printers do not comply.
2. Mandate random, statistically significant, manual (hand-to-eye) independent audits of VVPB after every election and before certification, for all voting methods, to verify machine results.
3. Rewrite FS §102.166 to redefine manual recounts to include all VVPB instead of only overvotes and undervotes. Expand the events that trigger manual recounts to include the following: discrepancies greater than 1% or that place the outcome of the election in doubt found in manual post-election audits; official malfeasance; statistical anomalies2; and/or voting system failures.
4. Facilitate the use of VVPB for all Early Voters by repealing the provision of FS §101.573 requiring precinct-based reporting for Early Voting, unless other practicable methods can be utilized such as Ballot-on-Demand.
5. Follow the mandate of FS §101.015(7), to “ensure that new technologies are appropriately certified in a timely manner for all elections” by proactively soliciting, testing and certifying multi-lingual ballot systems and a variety of innovative, non-tabulating ballot-marking devices as components of state-certified voting systems, thus allowing all votes to be cast on VVPB and providing an equal opportunity for language minorities and disabled voters to cast an unaided and private vote.
6. Extend the deadline for certification of elections to allow adequate time to conduct random, statistically significant audits prior to certification.
