SECURE OUR ELECTIONS AND SUPPORT IMPEACHMENT
ACTION ONE: FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY AND JOIN US FOR #INDIVISIBLETUESDAY
Meet us today, November 5, at 11:30 AM in the courtyard of Sen. Wyden’s and Rep. Blumenauer’s offices at 911 NE 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97232.
On this election day we must work to protect our elections and our country.
- We will thank Senator Wyden for his PAVE Act and ask that he work for $600 million for election security the House passed be put into the Senate Budget.
- We will thank Congressman Blumenauer for being a leader on impeachment and ask him to continue to protect our country by working to impeach and remove Trump
ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR SENATORS
SAMPLE SCRIPTS:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
For Wyden:Thank you for your public support for the impeachment inquiry. Today, I am asking for your help to protect our elections. I strongly support your PAVE Act, and I agree with you that McConnell’s $250 million for election security is a “joke.” Please fight for the targeted $600 million the House passed. And continue to challenge Facebook’s microtargeting, which you brought to our attention. Thank you.
FOR MERKLEY: Thank you for your public support for the impeachment inquiry. Today, I am asking for your help to protect our elections. I strongly support the PAVE Act and other election security measures. Please fight for the targeted $600 million the House passed. And challenge Facebook’s unethical role in our elections. Thank you.
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION THREE: CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS
Not sure who your U.S. Representative is? Find out here.
SAMPLE SCRIPTS:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
FOR ALL REPRESENTATIVES BUT WALDEN First, I want to thank you for your vote for the impeachment inquiry. Please keep protecting our country by working to impeach and remove Trump.
FOR WALDEN: No matter what your allegiance is to your Party and to the President, I would hope you believe that our elections must be fair. Please support the impeachment process.
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
BACKGROUND:
While keeping up the pressure for the impeachment process, we must acknowledge Trump could win next year’s presidential election.
A combination of foreign interference including disinformation campaigns and manipulating the count by hacking into voting machines, along with State Republican efforts to suppress the vote could add enough to Trump’s faithful base to hand him another four years.
As the House moves onto the public phase of the impeachment process our election vulnerabilities are “a national security emergency.”
Experts believe election security can be strengthened by:
- Using paper ballots.
- Requiring audits of election results.
- Replacing easily hacked voting equipment.
- Securing voter databases.
- Imposing sanctions on foreign governments that interfere.
In June, the House passed an election security bill requiring states provide paper ballots and mandating specific security upgrades. They authorized $600 million for the job. We need the Senate to do the same.
While the Senate works on election security funding the House must protect our elections and our country with the public phase of the impeachment process – that ends in the impeachment and removal of Trump.
We have 363 days to respond to this emergency. Or on day 364, we could wake up to another four years of Trump.
SOURCES:
Letter to US Senators, Oct. 31, 2019: “Foreign interference in American elections is a national security emergency.” https://www.issueone.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Letter-to-the-US-Senate_Defend-Americas-Elections.pdf
Washington Post, Oct. 28, 2019: “As Russia makes 2020 play, Democratic campaigns say they are in the dark, and experts fear U.S. elections are vulnerable” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-russia-makes-2020-play-democratic-campaigns-say-they-are-in-the-dark-and-experts-fear-us-elections-are-vulnerable/2019/10/28/71ffb55c-f5eb-11e9-ad8b-85e2aa00b5ce_story.html
New York Times, Sept. 25, 2019L: “$250 Million to Keep Votes Safe? Experts Say Billions Are Needed” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/us/mitch-mcconnell-election-security-bill-.html
Brennan Center for Justice, Oct. 23, 2019: “How to Secure Elections for 2020 and Beyond” https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-secure-elections-2020-and-beyond
Senate Select Committee, Oct. 9, 2019: “Russian Active Measure Campaigns and Interterference in the 2016 U.S Election” https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Report_Volume2.pdf
Washington Post, Oct. 27, 2019: “Republicans escalate their strategy of voter suppression” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-escalate-their-strategy-of-voter-suppression/2019/10/27/69ceef88-f762-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html
The Hill, Oct. 22, 2019: “Senate Republicans block two election security bills” https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/466985-senate-republicans-block-two-election-security-bills
Washington Post, Sept. 20, 2019: “The Cybersecurity 202: McConnell’s support for election security funding is just the start of a big fight” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2019/09/20/the-cybersecurity-202-mcconnell-s-support-for-election-security-funding-is-just-the-start-of-a-big-fight/5d83e2a5602ff1737aef7323/
