Conaway Calls For An Investigation Into An Outrage

Let's face it; most of what happens in legislative committees is scripted and fixed. In a rare moment of extemporaneous passion NJ State Assemblyman Herbert Conaway Jr speaks truth to power.

Back in 2005 the NJ legislature (in response to a lawsuit initiated by NJ voter Stephanie Harris) passed a LAW stating that NJ would have secure voting machines that provided a voter verifiable paper trail.

After years of foot dragging and delays they finally postponed implementation of the law to January of 2009.

Now on November 13th they post a law that postpones the deadline to November of 2010!!! The scene in the video takes place on Monday December 8th at a committee hearing whose "job" it is to ram this through so the Senate can do the same on Thursday and a full vote would likely pass it just before years end and then Governor Corzine would sign this into law along, no doubt, with a stack of other bills requiring passage before year's end.

There will be no signing ceremony for this one. They had to sneak it in at the end of the year so that the state of New Jersey wouldn't be in violation of its own law!

I guess when you make the laws it's ok to simply change them when compliance becomes inconvenient.

A thousand Kudos to Assemblyman Conaway! It gives one faith in the possibility of government actually being able to intelligently respond to common sense and common decency to see someone actually "get it" like this and to have the sheer courage to go against the grain of the "script" and let loose with the truth as he saw it to be.




If the whole committee had that kind of clarity of thought, heart and conscience...this bill would be dead and we would be talking about going another way.

Meanwhile, the struggle for secure and verifiable elections continues at the NJ Senate this Thursday.

I hope anyone from NJ who sees this and cares about this issue will show up at the Statehouse in Trenton this Thursday to rise up in opposition to this latest postponement of the compliance date for secure and verifiable elections in NJ.

I'll be posting more info here tomorrow...stay tuned.

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