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In Response to Major Fax Campaign by TrueMajority.org,
Three More States Protect Voters from Pitfalls of Computer Voting

Americans in seven states - up from three states less than a month ago - can now be assured that their votes will not be lost by unreliable computer voting machines.

That's because the secretaries of state of Vermont, Missouri, and West Virginia - in response to TrueMajority.org's "Computer Ate My Vote" campaign - recently pledged to require all computer voting machines in their states to produce a voter-verified paper ballot trail. Those states join California, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Oregon, which already require a paper trail.

The Computer Ate My Vote campaign is urging secretaries of state nationwide to safeguard democracy as a growing number of their colleagues are doing.


In the past three weeks, our campaign has

* staged a national press event in Washington, D.C., that generated coverage on National Public Radio, on CNN, in Wired magazine, and by local outlets across the country;
* helped 35,577 TrueMajority members send faxes to their secretaries of state;
* held news conferences addressing secretaries of state in Colorado and Florida, with Pennsylvania scheduled this week and others soon thereafter;
* promoted a Super Tuesday protest at polling places in Maryland, and
* testified against paperless voting at a hearing held by Pennsylvania legislators.


Letters to the editor, op-eds, and paid advertising will follow in succession to generate sustained pressure.

Check out the Computer Ate My Vote campaign materials at http://www.truemajority.org/ComputerAteMyVote/index.cfm.

For more detailed information about computer voting, visit www.verifiedvoting.org or www.calvoter.org/votingtechnology.html#resources.

We'll keep you posted.

Yours in Stopping Computers from Eating Our Votes,


Ben Cohen
President, TrueMajority.org

PS: If you'd like to contact us, go here: http://www.truemajority.org/contact.cfm/