Resolution
 

Supporting the protection of the voting rights of all citizens
 

WHEREAS, for 75 years, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has been the champion in the battle for Hispanic Civil Rights; and  

WHEREAS, one of the foundations of democracy in the United States of America is the right to vote and to have that vote accurately counted; and  

WHEREAS, Direct Recording Electronic (DRE’s) voting machines and software are a new and unproven technology; and  

WHEREAS, election officials have not been adequately trained in the use of Diebold DRES’s in the counties of San Diego, Solano, San Joaquin and Kern and set conditions for the use of DRE’a in all other California counties on April 30, 2004; and  

WHEREAS, Senator Don Perata (D-Alameda) and Ross Johnson (R-Irvine) have taken  the bipartisan initiative with SB 1723 to ban the use of all DRE’s until January 1, 2005; and 

WHEREAS, LULAC District XIII requested the California Secretary of State in an April 24, 2004 letter to ban the use of all DRE’s. On April 28, LULAC Lorenzo Patino council members, Dr. Armando Ayala and Dr. David Bayer, representing District XIII, testified before the California state Voting Systems Panel, and read the April 24 letter into the official record. 

NOW THERFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the 2004 California State Convention of LULAC, held May 21-23 in Concord, CA that California LULAC supports SB 1723 and directs the California Secretary of State to immediately ban any and all machines which do not provide a paper verification process. 

Submitted by Silicon Valley #3020 

Adopted this 10th day of July 2004.
Hector M. Flores
LULAC National President