FRIDAY, MAY 18th, 8pm
PeaceSmiths monthly Community Forum – last of the season!
at FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
25 Broadway/Rt. 110 (southmost end near Merrick Rd./Montauk Hwy./Rt. 27A)
AMITYVILLE, Long Island, NY
(short walk from the Amityville LIRR Station and S1, S33, & N4 bus routes, on the N19 – get there – we’ll get you home!)
“the last church on the left”
How We Can and Why We Must Push for a Voting System that’s Verifiable, Untamperable and fully accessible to physically challenged and non-English speaking people!
Speaker: MARGE ACOSTA – NYers for Verified Voting, LI Rep., also active member League of Women Voters
DVD Showing: Bought and Sold — Electronic Voting in New York
LEARN ABOUT
- the help America Vote Act and how it’s being used to push to a touch-screen voting system with no paper trail
- the status of grounbreaking lawsuits by Suffolk and Nassau Counties and how NYS’s continued use of lever machines serves as a beacon for other states to resist new corruptible technologies
- what we can do to avert another Florida or Ohio like scenario in the upcoming Presidential election
DISCUSSION, LITERATURE, REFRESHMENTS
Suggested donation: $4
For more information/to get involved: (631)798-0778
Help is always needed setting up – from about 6:30pm.
Ideas for upcoming season (3rd Fri.’s, Sept. – May) Let us know of your interest in helping to plan and run the PeaceSmiths Community Forum ’07 – ’08 series! (631)798-0778
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