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From: "Chellie Pingree, Common Cause" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: November 17, 2006 7:06:32 AM PST
To: "Kris Millegan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: In Jeb Bush's name
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We need to raise
$50,000 this week for
fair elections in Florida.
We're halfway there.
Give TODAY and we'll
tell Jeb Bush you
donated in his honor!
Dear Kris,
What is it with Florida?
It seems like every couple years, come November, some county in
Florida is messing up an election. "Hanging Chads" and bad ballots
in Palm Beach in 2000. Thousands of Broward County absentee
ballots go missing in 2004. And in 2006, 18,000 electronic votes
in Sarasota County are just LOST. Florida has 67 counties; they
all need to GetItStraightBy2008.
Here's why your help right now is critical: a state audit of the
machines will begin soon. But the people conducting the audit are
active partisans, right down to the lead programmer, a Republican
who has pledged that he will never be a "passive political
participant."1
Yet when a judge decided to push back the test to bring independent
auditors into the process, Gov. Jeb Bush expressed surprise, saying
he only wanted them to play a backseat role.2 The need for an
outside investigation is clearer than ever.
Donate $67 to our campaign – one dollar for every county in Florida
– and help reach our $50,000 goal in the NEXT FOUR DAYS!
BONUS: If you donate today, we'll send a special note to Gov. Jeb
Bush, telling him you donated in his name to support clean
elections with audits and paper trails. Donations send a powerful
political message that citizens consider this a VERY serious issue.
The recount and state audits are first steps, but they may not
solve the real problem: votes that vanished before voters reached
the final screen, and a ballot that one expert called a "poster
child" for bad design.3
In an election this unreliable, a revote may be the only solution.
Don't expect Florida politicians to allow one without a fight.
Common Cause needs to react quickly to this changing situation. We
incur expenses every day – grassroots organizing, lobbying, and
media outreach. It's money well spent, but our resources are
stretched.
Help us hit $50,000 right now, and we'll let Jeb Bush know you
care. Give $67 for the 67 counties in Florida!
Florida may be particularly prone to election mishaps, but it's not
alone. There were problems in other states this year, too, as we
know from thousands of calls to our voter hotline. We need a
national solution if we have any hope of avoiding a meltdown in 2008.
Sincerely,
Chellie Pingree, President
Common Cause
1 Miami Herald, 9/14/06
2 Associated Press, 9/15/06
3 Miami Herald, 9/15/06
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