From a speech given by Ronnie Dugger and reporter in Common Dreams:
On next November 2nd about 30%, 35 million, of all the votes will be cast on touch-screens and then counted invisibly inside direct-recording electronic computerized voting systems with no paper ballots. This gives the programmers working for the four major voting business corporations the ability to rig the outcomes specifically among those 35 million unverified votes in ways that nobody can see, audit, or recount. There can and will be no manual recounts of those 35 million votes because there will be no paper ballots to recount. Only Congressional passage of bills by Holt in the House, or Graham-Clinton or Boxer in the Senate, early in September, could require paper-ballot trails on these systems, and while a handful of Republicans are among the Holt bill's 145 co-sponsors, not one Republican backs either of the Senate bills. The coming national election is set up to be stolen.
UPDATE: Common Cause is "launching a bold new national campaign" to "TAKE ACTION FOR ELECTIONS, to mobilize voters monitor polling places, and track voting problems on election day through our nationwide, toll-free number." They have already mailed out a plea to members for funds: "$25... will really help"!
This is as good a way as any being proposed to 1) put the Administration and Congress on notice that we're serious and we're watching, and 2) monitor our polls on Election Day, polling place by polling place.
