Special Advocacy Committee on Redistricting & Election Reform
In 2006, Kindra Muntz, center left with clipboard, formed the Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections (SAFE), www.safevote.org. That organization led a petition drive for a referendum for paper ballots and mandatory audits of elections. The measure passed in Sarasota County.
On the current scene nationwide and here in Florida, Kindra says the "Bermuda Triangle of politics" includes the need for a) health insurance reform; b) verified elections, and c) campaign finance reform. See the video at www.fairelectionsnow.org http://www.fairelectionsnow.org/ to see how these issues are entwined.
While two bills in Congress address verified elections and campaign finance reform (the Holt Bill, HR2894 and the Fair Elections Now Act (FENA), HR1826), still needed is a health insurance reform bill to
On the current scene nationwide and here in Florida, Kindra says the "Bermuda Triangle of politics" includes the need for a) health insurance reform; b) verified elections, and c) campaign finance reform. See the video at www.fairelectionsnow.org http://www.fairelectionsnow.org/ to see how these issues are entwined.
While two bills in Congress address verified elections and campaign finance reform (the Holt Bill, HR2894 and the Fair Elections Now Act (FENA), HR1826), still needed is a health insurance reform bill to
benefit all Americans. Click this link to check out Kindra's Special Advocacy Committee on Healthcare Reform and to lend your skills and talents to this critical, real-time effort.
Kindra cofounded the Florida Voters Coalition and lobbied for statewide legislation for paper ballots and optical scan voting machines which passed in 2007. She continues to work for improved audits of voting machine tallies, needed to verify election results and ensure voter confidence.
Following the UU Florida District Assembly in March 2009, Kindra formed the UULMF Special Advocacy Committee on Redistricting and Election Reform together with Fred Markham, Clean Elections Coordinator of the Space Coast Progressive Alliance, left, and Rev. Gregory
Wilson of the UU Church of Brevard, far right. Shown here at the District Assembly in 2009 in Sarasota, they are joined by Jeff and Karen Allstadt of the Buckman Bridge UU Church in Jacksonville, center, who were on hand for this picture but are not members of Kindra's UULMF Advocacy Committee.
This Advocacy Committee supports redistricting reform (www.fairdistrictsflorida.org) and clean elections (www.publicampaign.org) along with other needed actions including the successful 2009 effort to block passage of a "voter suppression bill" (S956/H7149) filed by the Majority leaders of the Florida legislature.
Kindra is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Venice, immediate past President of the Southwest Cluster of UU Congregations, and Secretary of the Board of the public charter Island Village Montessori School (www.islandvillage.org). She is a graduate of Harvard University.
Unitarian Universalists around the state have been supporting the redistricting reform petition drive. More work will be needed to pass the referendum in 2010. To help this effort among UUs statewide and to join UULMF's Special Advocacy Committee on Redistricting and Election Reform, please call Kindra at (941) 497-1764 or e-mail her at kindra2@comcast.net.
Kindra cofounded the Florida Voters Coalition and lobbied for statewide legislation for paper ballots and optical scan voting machines which passed in 2007. She continues to work for improved audits of voting machine tallies, needed to verify election results and ensure voter confidence.
Following the UU Florida District Assembly in March 2009, Kindra formed the UULMF Special Advocacy Committee on Redistricting and Election Reform together with Fred Markham, Clean Elections Coordinator of the Space Coast Progressive Alliance, left, and Rev. Gregory
Wilson of the UU Church of Brevard, far right. Shown here at the District Assembly in 2009 in Sarasota, they are joined by Jeff and Karen Allstadt of the Buckman Bridge UU Church in Jacksonville, center, who were on hand for this picture but are not members of Kindra's UULMF Advocacy Committee.
This Advocacy Committee supports redistricting reform (www.fairdistrictsflorida.org) and clean elections (www.publicampaign.org) along with other needed actions including the successful 2009 effort to block passage of a "voter suppression bill" (S956/H7149) filed by the Majority leaders of the Florida legislature.
Kindra is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Venice, immediate past President of the Southwest Cluster of UU Congregations, and Secretary of the Board of the public charter Island Village Montessori School (www.islandvillage.org). She is a graduate of Harvard University.
Unitarian Universalists around the state have been supporting the redistricting reform petition drive. More work will be needed to pass the referendum in 2010. To help this effort among UUs statewide and to join UULMF's Special Advocacy Committee on Redistricting and Election Reform, please call Kindra at (941) 497-1764 or e-mail her at kindra2@comcast.net.
