If EAs decide to lobby state legislatures, they should focus on Pennsylvania and Florida, the two swing states where a significant proportion of voters use a Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machine without a Voter Verified Paper Audit Trial (VVPAT):
What are concrete actions that you think EAs can do to help with this?
If EAs decide to lobby state legislatures, they should focus on Pennsylvania and Florida, the two swing states where a significant proportion of voters use a Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machine without a Voter Verified Paper Audit Trial (VVPAT):
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/millions-voters-could-cast-ballots-machines-leave-no-paper-trail/
For people who know how politics works: are petitions ever effective? Or writing letters to people-who-matter? Or something else?
Anecdotally, in descending order of efficacy: Phone call to representative from their voter > email to representative from their voter > petition.