[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5385]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            VOTER CONFIDENCE AND INCREASED ACCESSIBILITY ACT

  (Mr. HOLT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, a government such as ours, by the people, 
works only if the citizens believe it does. Yet, voting irregularities 
in polling places around the Nation have played an important role in 
eroding the trust of many Americans in Americans' ability to govern 
ourselves.
  Most or even all of the problems can be addressed, and we should do 
that. Today, hundreds of citizens are coming to Washington from around 
the country to urge that we enact H.R. 550, to give every voter a 
system of voting that allows voter-verified paper audit trails.
  Everything of value should be auditable, no less so votes, and every 
voter should be confident that his or her vote is recorded and counted 
as intended.
  Passage of the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act will 
be a big step toward restoring confidence in our government.

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