"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."We want American citizens to cast our votes as we wish, and to have those votes properly counted and tabulated so that the people we seat in public office are those who have been duly elected by the citizenry. We know, as did the Founders, that democracy is a messy business, full of dischord, dissent, debate, and dialogue. We cherish our differences of opinion and our Constitutional rights to express those differences in open and public debate, and in our democratic elections. We know that democracy is a uniquely human endeavor. And we know, that as a human endeavor, it belongs within the sphere of this thing we call the American community. Marking our ballots with our own hands as our political expression is each individual citizen's personal declaration of independence. It is how we sign our commitment to the Constitution of the United States of America, and it is how we sign our commitment to our community. Our community reciprocates this commitment by reading our ballots in open, public meeting and discerning our voter intent as read by the human eye and mind. Our signature of commitment, and the community validation of it, are not things to be delegated to technological interpretation or handed over to a privatized, profit-driven industry. The integrity of our democratic elections depends entirely on the notion of the consent of the governed. Democratic elections depend entirely on the trusted outcomes that come from citizens casting ballots, which are counted in open meeting by other citizens with the results tallied and announced publicly for any and all interested observers to see. The integrity of our elections does not depend on the next exciting technological possibility. It does not depend on a computer programmed to inform the voter whether or not he has voted right or wrong according to technological standards. The integrity of our elections does not depend on outrageous expenditures into a profit-driven high tech industry that to this point has failed abysmally in delivering any kind of product or process that meets the standards of democracy. When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, it appropriated billions of our tax dollars to be used in transforming our elections into high tech events with no regard at all for the foundational community strength that is the basis for real democratic elections. Similarly, when Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) in 1993 it opened a pathway for voter registration fraud by removing the essential community touchpoints of voters registering in their own cities and towns. By disregarding, and in fact, ignoring and suppressing, community as an integral characteristic of American democratic processes, these Federal Acts of Congress have, over time, severely wounded the nation's democratic elections. Congress now has the opportunity to amend some of these past mistakes. We, ordinary American citizens, join hands with our embattled election officials, who have been struggling to keep our elections running in the face of these irreparable losses resulting from the dilution of community and the insertion of profit-driven industry. We join hands with our honorable public servants wishing to restore democratic elections to our communities. We offer our Remedies and Recommendations in our Request by Voters to Congress to amend the Holt Bill as a practical, feasible, affordable, and democratic means for achieving this worthy goal. Our solutions are not high tech, high cost, or profit-driven. Our solutions are community-based, workable, and achievable. Our Remedies and Recommendations, if incorporated into the Holt Bill and passed by Congress, will have a profound influence in restoring democratic elections to every jurisdiction in the nation. -- Sign our Letter to Congress, the Request by Voters