Finally!
Three GOP congressman have signed on as co-sponsors to HR 2239, Rep. Rush Holt's amendment to the Help America Vote Act.
As criticism of electronic voting systems heats up across the nation, three Republicans have signed on to support a bill that would force e-voting machines to produce a paper trail. Previously only Democrats had vowed to support the bill.
Republican congressmen Tom Davis of Virginia, Christopher Shays of Connecticut and New Hampshire's Charles Bass have agreed to co-sponsor the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003, which was introduced to the House in May by Rush Holt (D-N.J.).
This is really good news. I've long maintained that this is
not a partisan issue, and that it's dangerous to portray it as such. Republican sponsorship will help dispel that canard.
Even without tampering, computers can just freak out, as I'm sure we all know. I think it's important to stress potential problems without mucking it up with Us and Them rhetoric, no matter what the owners of the companies say to George Bush.
The real and potential problems of these machines are important to all voters, not just Dems.