[UPDATE: SB 840 -Passed the Senate. Vote broke down as such: Yeahs-36; Neahs-4!!!! The Senate has communicated to the House, so now it is up HB2707 which is in P&E committee and due for a vote Feb. 2 (see text below). This past Friday, the Senate Privileges and Election Committee voted to report SB 840 out of committee. A vote on SB 840 is likely to take place Monday, Jan. 29, on the Senate floor.
HB 2707 (SB 840's companion in the house) passed House P&E subcommittee, Friday, Jan 26. It comes to full P&E committee, Friday, Feb 2. If it passes, it should then move to the House floor.
There is also a companion budget amendment to provide funding for the transition to optical scan voting machines in the Senate. Its hearings have not yet been scheduled.
** Please call or email your Senator and Delegate and urge them to vote for SB 840 and HB 2707 to require Virginia elections to use verifiable optical scan machines, and manditory auditing of ballots/machines during canvasses and recounts.
THIS IS THE WEEK THAT MATTERS!!!
SB 840 text summary: http://leg1.state.va...
Contact information for any member at http://legis.state.v...
OR
Senator contact info: http://sov.state.va....
Delegate telephone contacts: http://dela.state.va...
Delegate email addresses:http://dela.state.va...
Senate/ Delegate District Maps: http://sov.state.va....
***Is anyone reading this stuff? I am just curious if people are interested. Othewise, I may not post on it any more.
[Update con't.: (floor) 01/29/07 Senate: VOTE: (36-Y 4-N)
YEAS--Bell, Blevins, Chichester, Colgan, Cuccinelli, Deeds, Devolites Davis, Edwards, Hanger, Hawkins, Herring, Houck, Howell, Lambert, Locke, Lucas, Marsh, Martin, McDougle, Miller, Newman, Norment, Obenshain, O'Brien, Potts, Puckett, Quayle, Rerras, Ruff, Saslaw, Stolle, Ticer, Wagner, Watkins, Whipple, Williams--36.
NAYS--Puller, Reynolds, Stosch, Wampler--4. ]