About HCPBNOW.org

The HCPBNOW.org website was founded by Kathleen Wynne, former Associate Director of BlackBoxVoting.org.

This site was created in response to ground-breaking evidence uncovered by Bev Harris and Kathleen Wynne, while conducting two years of in-the-field investigations into election-related issues (featured in the HBO documentary, "Hacking Democracy"). Investigations which proved the insecurity, unreliability and unsustainable costs necessary to maintain extremely flawed electronic voting machines, combined with overwhelming evidence collected by numerous other citizens and citizen groups throughout the country against the continued use of such machines.

The immediate goals of HCPBNOW.org are to:

Build a "critical mass" of citizens who support hand counted paper ballots (HCPB) which is powerful enough to be heard by representatives at both the state and federal levels in making it clear that the majority of Americans want election reform which guarantees that all citizens will have appropriate access, meaningful oversight, and participation that can only be provided in a transparent elections process.  ULTIMATELY, WE INTEND TO MAKE LEGISLATORS SEE THAT SUCH TRANSPARENCY CANNOT BE ACHIEVED AS LONG AS MACHINES COUNT OUR VOTES.

Advise and keep citizens informed of strategic actions they can take and which are already taking place in other parts of the country, which continue to shine a light on the need for hand counted paper ballots now, and to make certain the media is alerted of these actions as they occur. We want to keep such actions consistently in the public eye in order to build momentum and commitment that cannot be undermined, distracted or discredited by those who oppose HCPB now. We are patriots and we are not going away.

HCPBNOW.org believes that citizens should not have to ask for what is already their inalienable right - open and transparent elections, which can be overseen by citizens, without the need for corporate privatization or unelected "experts." We are committed to the idea that a "government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth"

...a core principle HCPBNOW.org will never compromise for the sake of political expediency or personal gain.

READ THE EVIDENCE AGAINST E-VOTING

Our petition finds legitimacy in the rights of the people, as so profoundly stated in the Declaration of Independence...

"...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

From the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson, 1776

Congress and state governments are making unilateral decisions about our elections without appropriate citizen oversight or approval. Their decisions systematically degrade election transparency and integrity. The most recent developments include conducting our elections with either electronic voting machines or with optical scanners. These machines take away the counting of our votes from meaningful observation and understanding by the average American citizen.

Instead, our elections are becoming increasingly privatized. The United States Congress has sanctioned this privatization. Our elections are now virtually owned and operated by corporations, overseen by "experts," and strictly managed by election officials. Citizens have been driven from the last refuge we have as a free people - our elections.  THIS MUST CHANGE.

Therefore, We The People can no longer tolerate this transfer of the ownership, oversight, and understanding of our voting process. By demanding the reintroduction of the Paper Ballot Act of 2006, we are taking an important first step in offering the American people a choice of having their votes counted by hand.

Our elections are our most basic right and the citizens' integral role in how they are to be conducted can no longer be ignored by Congress. In fact, it is the People's civic duty to enforce these rights when our government chooses to degrade them. Otherwise, we no longer live in a democracy, but exist under tyranny.

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