To steer America back towards peace, democracy and well-being it is crucial to have fair elections and to inform people door-to-door and register voters for the 2004 election.

A goal of TruthisBetter is to provide a document of the facts, for persons going door-to-door, to use as a factual reference.

Swing states, that switch between parties are critical. Here are some of the swing states.

State	Electoral Votes	Turnout	State	Electoral Votes	Turnout
Illinois	22	52%	Michigan	18	58%
Missouri	11	57%	Ohio	21	56%
Oregon	7	60%	Pennsylvania	23	53%
Florida	25	48%	Arkansas	6	46%
Connecticut	8	57%	Kentucky	8	51%
New Jersey	15	50%	New Mexico	5	46%
Louisiana	9	54%	Arizona	8	41%
Colorado	8	54%	Georgia	13	43%
Iowa	7	60%	Minnesota	10	67%
New Hampshire	4	61%	Nevada	4	41%
Wisconsin	11	65%	Virginia	13	61%
Tennessee	11	48%	West Virginia	5	46%
Washington	11	57%			%

See US Election Atlas

Here are a few states with "narrow" Republican leads in the 2000 Presidential election, along with an estimate for number of voters to register to swing the results in those states via voter registration: Arkansas 86,000, Tennessee 128,000, Colorado 240,000, Alabama 374,000, Georgia 456,000, Florida 0 if all legally registered voters are permitted to vote (they weren't in the 2000 or 2002 elections), 134,000 if not, Louisiana 214,000, New Hampshire 11,000, Nevada 35,000, Ohio 278,000, Missouri 129,000, Mississippi 86,000, Kentucky 232,000.

The following states had narrow Democratic leads in 2000: Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maine, Iowa, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania. Florida would have had approximately a 55,000 Democratic lead if all legally registered voters had been allowed to vote.

The following Democrats voted with the Republicans on the 2004 Congressional budget which gave large tax breaks to the wealthy at the expense of veterans benefits, homeland security, a balanced budget, social security and Medicare, unemployment benefits and other urgent programs: Rep Ralph Hall of TX, and Senator Miller of GA.

How to overcome Electronic Voting Machine Fraud

Although Representative Rush Holt's legislation to ensure fair voting is insufficient, it is urgently needed and a good start. HR2239 requires public (open source) programs for voting machines (duh!) plus a voter verified paper ballot that can be used in the case of electronic failures and for recounts. Federal law should require not only that programming code for voting machines be public, but also that the machines are verified post-election to be sure they actually used the claimed public programs.

Technical persons could quickly verify voting machines post election, if and only if the voting machine company divulges all the hardware, software, and drivers they use prior to the election. The vote counting process is required to be public by most state legislatures, yet is not public when counts are done by secret software that is compiled into unreadable machine language prior to elections.

A state-wide paper recount could be required whenever discrepencies or questions arise with a post-election verification.