Government Accountability
Office to Conduct Investigation
of 2004 Election
Irregularities
(Washington, DC) Reps. John Conyers, Jr., Jerrold
Nadler, Robert Wexler, Robert Scott, and Rush Holt announced today
that, in response to their November 5 and 8 letters to the Government
Accountability Office (GAO), the GAO has decided to move forward with
an investigation of election irregularities in the 2004 election. The
five Members issued the following statement:
"We are pleased that the GAO has reviewed the concerns expressed
in our letters and has found them of sufficient merit to warrant
further investigation. On its own authority, the GAO will examine the
security and accuracy of voting technologies, distribution and
allocation of voting machines, and counting of provisional ballots. We
are hopeful that GAO's non-partisan and expert analysis will get to
the bottom of the flaws uncovered in the 2004 election. As part of
this inquiry, we will provide copies of specific incident reports
received in our offices, including more than 57,000 such complaints
provided to the House Judiciary Committee.
"The core principle of any democracy is the consent of the
governed. All Americans, no matter how they voted, need to have
confidence that when they cast their ballot, their voice is
heard."
The Members listed above were joined in
requesting the non-partisan GAO investigation by Reps. Melvin Watt,
John Olver, Bob Filner, Gregory Meeks, Barbara Lee, Tammy Baldwin,
Louise Slaughter and George Miller.
Go to http://www.gao.gov/electionresults.pdf for details about how you can report irregularities.
