TOOLS: Letter to the Editor :   R/e Senate committee guts S 223:  The senate must restore the requirement of Voter Verified Paper Ballots to S223, the Public Confidence in Elections Act.  A paper tape inside the machine that the voter can't see does nothing to secure our vote.  We can't see how the machine marked our votes or if it recorded them at all!  We have to have Voter Verified Paper Ballots to restore Public Confidence in Elections.  If the state threw away every single voting machine already owned, and replaced them with the optical scan machines (with one ballot marking device for the disabled)  the cost would be less than $28 million.  Chart    The Help America Vote Act provided North Carolina with more than $50 million dollors for new voting machines.  Touch screen machines cost more than twice as much and we have proof from the 2004 election that they lose votes, count votes twice and count backwards.  North Carolina voters deserve better. Thank you for taking action on this critical issue!  We have to do what it takes to get our votes to count. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Generic letters to editor r/e S 223 and H 238: Use True Majority's Letter to Editor action center here , or   Use Common Cause's Letter to Editor action center here _________________________________________________________________________________ Flyers  - mail them, hand them out, leave them at your local library, Dr.'s office, anywhere. Two leaflets written by computer scientist Justin Moore, who advised the NC Legislature's Joint Select Committee on Electronic Voting. Both are at: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~justin/voting/  The first is a leaflet (print and then fold into thirds): http://www.cs.duke.edu/~justin/voting/vvpb-leaflet.pdf The second is the exact same text, but in a two-page flyer: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~justin/voting/vvpb-flyer.pdf The second you just print onto 8.5"x11" paper and hand out. One leaflet four pages long, covers all aspects of the bills:                                                                                                              A Silver leaflet More leaflets to come... TOOLS:   Send a free fax via your email:  ***New***  Current Alert: Pass 'Public Confidence in Elections' Act Today! Take 60 seconds to send a fax or email to your legislators VerifiedVoting.org joins North Carolina Verified Voting in asking you to contact your state legislators today and urge them to pass HB 238 and SB 223 before any more votes are lost. This bill would require a paper ballot for every vote, and other measures to make your vote more secure  Take Action Today! Visit Verified Voting's one step Action Center to send a fax or email to your representatives by going to this link: http://hq.demaction.org/dia/organizations/vevo/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=421 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send your members of Congress a fax or letter urging them to co-sponsor federal legislation requiring voter-verified paper ballots (VVPBs) (enter your zip code to get contact information for members of Congress). Or call your members of Congress at +1 (202) 224-3121 or  (888) 508-2974  and urge them to co-sponsor the federal legislation. Contact Gary Bartlett, Executive Director of the State Board of Elections. Tell him to put a moratorium on the further purchase of any other paperless electronic voting machines while solutions for North Carolina's electronic voting machine problem can be addressed. Contact Gary Bartlett here: phone  (919) 733-7173  fax (919) 715-0135  or email him at gary.bartlett@ncmail.net Ongoing - Contact your NC State Representatives in the General Assembly. Tell them that all voting machines should produce voter verified paper ballots, have open source code and require audits. Find your state representatives here   Ongoing - Contact your County Election Director and encourage them to only use machines that provide Voter Verified Paper Ballots. Find your county election director's contact information here: County BOE    Action Alert at Congress.org to notify representatives you want Voter Verified Paper ballots: link   Our most recent list shows 40 Counties in North Carolina using paperless electronic voting, or DREs: Alamance, Alleghany, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Buncombe, Burke, Carteret, Caswell, Catawba, Cherokee, Craven,Davidson, Davie, Gaston, Greene, Guilford, Henderson, Hertford, Jackson, Lee, Lenoir, Macon, Madison, McDowell,Mecklenburg, Moore, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Polk, Rutherford, Stanly, Surry,Swain, Transylvania, Union, Wilson