Verified Voting in Iowa

From my inbox this afternoon...

Dear Iowa Voter,

It is time for the Iowa General Assembly to return verified voting to our state. We a Iowans for Voting Integrity urge you to sign our petition calling for strong voting system reform in the next Assembly, and to contact your legislators directly and tell them to act on this vital issue.

Iowans for Voting Integrity's petition calls for the 82nd Assembly to pass legislation mandating:

The use of paper ballots in all elections covered by the Election Code.
Routine hand audits of ballots in randomly selected precincts
Public disclosure of voting system and vote tabulation software.
The creation of a state panel of computer experts to conduct meaningful testing and review of voting system and vote tabulation software.
Further measures to protect the integrity and transparency of elections in Iowa.
For our recommended measures, we have drawn heavily on the Brennan Center for Justice's 2006 report, "The Machinery of Democracy."

The Brennan Center task force members included Professor Doug Jones of the University of Iowa, Professor David Dill of Stanford University, Howard Schmidt, the former chief security officer of the Microsoft Corporation, and other experts in computer science and voting technology.

Click here to read and sign our petition for verified elections!

After you sign the petition, e-mail your legislators to support strong voting system reform. Click here to find contact information for your state Representative and state Senator.

Our position paper on for voting system reform can be viewed at our website, www.iowansforvotingintegrity.org.

There is no reason Iowa should remain one of a minority of states that still allows paperless voting, rather than one of the states embracing the best practices to verify elections in the computer age. Let's work to change that in the next year, and help Iowa adopt practices that give us the highest confidence in our elections.

Best regards,
Iowans for Voting Integrity
Working for Voting Systems Worthy of The Public Trust
www.iowansforvotingintegrity.org