[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16897]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            ELECTION REFORM

  (Mrs. JONES of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. JONES of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I just completed a panel discussion 
with Harper's Weekly about what happened in Ohio in election reform, 
and I just want to bring to the attention of the American public once 
again the need for this House to pass legislation that will provide for 
electoral reform, no excuse absentee balloting, holiday voting so that 
people can get to the ballot box and vote, an assurance that the head 
of a company who is involved in the process of computer machines will 
not have the ability to be the cochair of the campaign of someone 
running for office, the assurance that the Secretary of State cannot be 
Secretary of State and then have the responsibility of being a cochair 
of a campaign.
  Elections are so important in our country. We go across the world 
trying to assure democracy and freedom across the world. We need to 
make sure that we assure that every vote counts in the United States of 
America. I ask my colleagues to join me in signing on to the Count 
Every Vote legislation as well as supporting the same legislation in 
the U.S. Senate authored by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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