LAST MINUTE TREACHERY
The most damaging flaw in our system as it has carelessly been allowed to evolve, is the concentration of power in a very few hands unaccountable to the people.
Linda Lamone, Diebold($), and their friends in the legislature have pulled a bill that would have returned Maryland, (on the whole a progressive state), to a system of voting where the people actually get to cast their votes directly onto paper. Because of that last minute treachery, we return to machines, at this point known to be archaic, potentially dishonest, and godly expensive.
But it ain't over yet. The Legislators, by and large supportive of what the bill requires, need to hear from as many of us as possible. We need to tell them that the House Bill, HB 18, contains the three essentials:
- Provisions for voter verification
- Voting on paper with that paper being the vote of record. (So that we can have audits.)
- Audits.
Please take the time to call and email the members of the Maryland Senate. Tell them activists have compromised all along the process, but cannot compromise on the very essence of voting reform, the above three elemental points of it all.
Senator Kasemeyer, majority leader of the Senate, is a man who has risked a great deal to do what is right for the people of Maryland. That kind of integrity in any leader is indeed where our best hopes lie in this nation. People like Kasemeyer can get us back on track.
HB 18 passed unanimously in the House, Kasemeyer's original bill had 37 sponsors.
What is needed now is to contact all the Maryland Senators to let them know that we are watching and we care about our vote. We want HB 18 passed as a Senate bill as it is written.
It matters not whom you vote for. What matters is who counts the votes. Joseph Stalin. | 
