Garnering more support for a citizen's right

To the Editor:

Why aren't the major political parties encouraging support for the National Clean Elections Lawsuit.

The third largest political party, the Constitution Party, is the only party encouraging support.

The suit is filed against 10 states: New Hampshire, Iowa, Ohio, Florida, California, New York, Illinois, Oregon, South Carolina, and Texas.

This suit is calling attention to U.S. voting procedures that are so secretive and potentially corruptible you'd expect these of systems in third world countries.

The Clean Elections lawsuit is in the process of expanding to all 50 states. Charges that the use of any computer systems which obscure ballots from the people for any period of time before a count is completed and the results are announced are unconstitutional.

Citizens for a Fair Vote Count and its plaintiffs in the Clean Elections Lawsuit are calling attention to the potential for vote fraud through electronic voting systems.

According to the suit, the use of computer and machine election systems violates each citizen's right to vote, as defined at least twice by the Supreme Court of the United States.

In 1915 and 1964 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a citizen's right to vote consists of two parts:

The right to cast a ballot.

The right to know that his ballot has been counted accurately.

Russell Brown

Libby