I wanted to give folks an update on our voting machine integrity campaign. Because of the work of so many activists on this issue, we are seeing a much better situation in this election cycle. We still have a long way to go and work to do, but many more voters in 2006 will be able to verify that their vote was recorded correctly.

According to VerifiedVoting.org and the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey, in 2004 only 10 states had passed requirements that voting systems produce voter verifiable paper records - covering only 27% of registered voters. Today, 27 states have passed requirements that their voting systems produce voter verifiable paper records, covering almost 55% of registered voters. In addition, eight states and a number of counties have simply done the right thing and purchased voting systems which automatically produce paper records, bringing the total to over 65%.

Together we can reach our goal to have all voting machines produce paper records and have every state mandate an audit of those records.