Latham Neads To Hear About H.R. 550
By Sean Flaherty, Iowa Voters
I ran into Jerry at the ICCI convention (more on that later), but Sean posted this in his absence.
Residents of Iowa’s Fourth Congressional District: Tom Latham says he needs to hear from you about verifiable elections.
The gold standard of election integrity billls, H.R. 550, now has 199 cosponsors, including noteable Republican support.
These are some of the things H.R. 550 will do for federal elections:
* Require a voter-verified paper record of every vote cast.
* Require that at least 2% of the precincts in the county be randomly audited by hand
* Require public disclosure of software used in voting systems.
Iowa’s Rep. Jim Leach, conservative Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, and very conservative Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylania are among the GOP cosponsors.
But Rep. Latham says he is not hearing from constituents about the bill or about verifiable elections. This needs to change.
Here is a map of the Iowa 4th Congressional District.
More detailed information about 550 can be found at sponsor Rush Holt’s website, and by downloading the iccountcoalitions’s excellent packet on the bill.
Letters and phone calls from people in Latham’s district have the greatest impact, but any Iowan interested in the issue should contact him.
Here is Rep. Latham’s contact information. Make sure he won’t be able to say again that his constituents are silent on election integrity.
