Help Us Save Your Vote!

Over the past nine months, your donations have helped alert thousands of Maryland citizens and decision makers to the danger posed to our democracy by insecure, unverifiable electronic voting. They have enabled us to produce and distribute education materials, conduct presentations to community groups on the potential for electronic voting fraud, answer thousands of citizen questions on our information line, keep the media spotlight on voting procedures in Maryland, spearhead a lawsuit challenging the use of paperless electronic voting machines, ensure the contribution of technical expertise to the policy debate, staff a complaint and legal hotline on Election Day, compile a database of voting anomalies, and field over 400 trained pollwatchers in 14 counties and the City of Baltimore who recorded problems and made it possible for countless Marylanders who would otherwise have been wrongfully disenfranchised to vote in the last election. 

TrueVoteMD’s statewide citizen pollwatchers documented over 530 irregularities in Maryland’s electoral process on Nov. 2 that partially or totally prevented thousands of Maryland voters from casting their ballots (Read the Report [PDF 332]). Our report is being used by legislators, administrators and local election boards statewide to investigate electronic and human barriers to fair, transparent, and secure voting in Maryland.

But the most pervasive problem, the one that affected 100% of Maryland’s more than 3 million voters, went unrecorded: not a single voter knows whether his or her vote was counted—or was counted correctly—because the state’s touch-screen voting machines had no voter-verified paper audit trail.

Nov. 2 was just the beginning, not the end. Now that we have the evidence, we must put it into action.  The next three months are critical because the General Assembly will be considering the fate of two bills that require an accessible voter verified paper audit trail on all of Maryland’s electronic voting machines.  If legislation is not passed by the close of the 2005 session in April, it is unlikely that we will be able to get crucial improvements to the voting process implemented in time for the 2006 election. 

Your donations are needed now so that we can get the message and the evidence into the hands of all Maryland citizens and protect the integrity of the next election!

TrueVoteMD is a project of the Campaign for Fresh Air & Clean Politics, a non-partisan 501(c)(3) non-profit.

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