Government Accountability Office to Conduct Investigation of 2004 Election Irreg

Government Accountability Office to Conduct Investigation of 2004
Election Irregularities

November 23, 2004

(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.

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