HR 811: Separating Truth From Fiction in E-Voting Reform

From BinaryFreedom.INFO

From EFF: After years of painstaking lobbying, email and phone campaigns, congressional hearings, and committee markups and amendments, Rep. Rush Holt's Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act finally appears poised for a floor vote in the House of Representatives. With an impressive 216 bipartisan co-sponsors, the bill has a real chance of passing. If signed into law, HR 811 would dramatically improve the electoral process in both the short and long term. While it would not solve the immense shortcomings in the current system, HR 811 would take a giant step towards returning much-needed transparency and accountability to the process.

Not unexpectedly, now that the bill has gained traction in the 110th Congress, critics have descended onto the bill with a fury, complaining that it is too weak or too strong, that its deadlines are too ambitious or too distant, that it takes too much autonomy away from the states or not enough.

EFF strongly supports the passage of HR 811 and hopes that you will as well. Don't just take our word for it: read the bill for yourself and then make your own decision. If you don't think that HR 811 goes far enough, then push for passage of complementary legislation, either in Congress or with your own State legislatures. EFF will continue to support sensible legislative proposals that can build on the foundation of HR 811. But whatever you do, don't fall for the false choice offered in the breathless rhetoric of the "all or nothing" contingent. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. And HR 811 is good.

Read the bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.00811:

Read EFF Staff Attorney Matt Zimmerman's complete analysis of the bill: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005308.php

Tell Congress to Support E-Voting Reform: http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=109

Read more about EFF's E-voting work: http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/