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    Mission of AZPC

    Click for the Mission Statement of the Arizona Progressive Council (AzPC)

    Who we are:


    Arizona Progressive Council (AzPC) is a collective / coalition of progressives and progressive organizations throughout the State of Arizona, not necessarily affiliated with any particular political party. Membership requirement is to be progressive and liberally minded, and willing to be active within the Arizona political arena by supporting and pursuing progressive candidates, supporting the initiatives and work of AzDPC, training and education of progressive programs, and progressive coalition building. We maintain a database that helps organize down to the Legislative District level.

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    Current
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    HB2635

    Voting equipment, source code escrow ------------------------
    This would require the Secretary of State to place machine source code in escrow with an independent agent, overseen by a 3 person committee to investigate and test vote recording and tabulations machines. ------------------------
    Sponsor: Rep Ted Downing (D) LD 28

    HB2638

    Verifiable paper ballot ------------------------
    This would require the use of a paper ballot that the voter can verify to subsequently be counted by vote tabulating equipment. ------------------------
    Sponsors: Rep Ted Downing (D) LD 28, Steve Gallardo (D) LD 13 (Former Maricopa County Assistant Elections Director), Phil Lopes (D) LD 27

    Useful Links

    * Description of Hack & Stack Manipulation Method
    * Why AZ Diebold MUST be stopped!
    * Ballot-Box Fraud in Tucson
    * AZ Elections Resolution

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    Tuesday, September 27, 2005

    Can This Nomination Be Justified? By George Will, Washington Post
    Can This Nomination Be Justified?: "Senators beginning what ought to be a protracted and exacting scrutiny of Harriet Miers should be guided by three rules. First, it is not important that she be confirmed. Second, it might be very important that she not be. Third, the presumption -- perhaps rebuttable but certainly in need of rebutting -- should be that her nomination is not a defensible exercise of presidential discretion to which senatorial deference is due.

    It is not important that she be confirmed because there is no evidence that she is among the leading lights of American jurisprudence, or that she possesses talents commensurate with the Supreme Court's tasks. The president's 'argument' for her amounts to: Trust me. There is no reason to, for several reasons.

    He has neither the inclination nor the ability to make sophisticated judgments about competing approaches to construing the Constitution. Few presidents acquire such abilities in the course of their pre-presidential careers, and this president particularly is not disposed to such reflections."

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