Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research

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Save Our Secret Ballot responds:

SOS Ballot has been conducting number polls with Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research
on the secret ballot in states where we are launching campaigns, and we have
found that this issue enjoys enormous public support, including 90% support
in union households. Mr. Hoffa needs to reacquaint himself with the rank and
file Teamsters whose dues pay his salary before he makes another arrogant
statement. It's clear that the union boss agenda is to oppose secret ballots
throughout our society. We cannot let them get their anti-democracy foot in
the door because they might never stop. Today they attack the secret ballot
rights of their own members; tomorrow it's the rest of us. We saw this before
our recent victory in Utah, when the UT AFL-CIO leadership referred to the
secret ballot process as anti-democratic.

Full Release from SOS Ballot:

Save Our Secret Ballot Chairman Istook Responds to Jimmy Hoffa
Washington, DC - Earlier today, a link to a Teamsters press release appeared on
Twitter:  http://twitter.com/efca.  In this release, Teamster president Hoffa praised
the House and Senate sponsors of card check and asked, "Since when is the secret ballot a
basic tenet of democracy?"

Upon reading this statement, SOS Ballot Chairman Rep. Ernest Istook responded,
“Mr. Hoffa’s statement is the epitome of arrogance and willful ignorance.
 The secret ballot has been a basic tenet of democracy since its earliest
beginnings in Greece.  Skipping ahead a few millennia, modern democracy
has relied on secret ballots to ensure that the voting process is untainted by
coercion and intimidation, something I think he may be familiar with.  He
should ask those Democratic sponsors in the House and Senate if they enjoyed
secret ballots in their leadership elections, and he also should ask Rep.
George Miller why he felt it necessary to ask the Mexican government to protect
secret ballots for their workers.

“SOS Ballot has been conducting a number polls with Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research
on the secret ballot in states where we are launching campaigns, and we have
found that this issue enjoys enormous public support, including 90% support in
union households.  Mr. Hoffa needs to reacquaint himself with the rank and
file Teamsters whose dues pay his salary before he makes another arrogant
statement.  It's clear that the union boss agenda is to oppose secret ballots
throughout our society.  We cannot let them get their anti-democracy foot
in the door because they might never stop.  Today they attack the secret
ballot rights of their own members; tomorrow it's the rest of us.  We saw this
before our recent victory in Utah, when the UT AFL-CIO leadership referred to
the secret ballot process as anti-democratic,” Istook continued.

SOS Ballot is a 501c4 organization dedicated to educating the American public
on the continued need for a secret ballot wherever state or federal law
requires elections.  seeks to protect voters from intimidation and
harassment by empowering them to vote whether they wish to have the right to a
secret ballot guaranteed in their state constitution.  SOS Ballot is
currently conducting initiative or legislative campaigns in Arizona, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
South Dakota and Utah to put constitutional amendment language on the ballot in
2010.

The 47-word amendment says:  "The right of individuals to vote by
secret ballot is fundamental. Where state or federal law requires elections for
public office or public votes on initiatives or referenda, or designations or
authorizations of employee representation, the right of individuals to vote by
secret ballot shall be guaranteed."

The secret ballot was used locally as an act of post-Civil war southern
reconstruction, first as a way to impose a literacy requirement on newly freed
slaves.  But the secret ballot also protected mostly black voters who
faced physical intimidation, even lynching, depending on how their vote was
cast. Secret ballots were first used statewide in the Massachusetts governor¹s
race 1888 and nationally in 1892 to elect President Grover Cleveland.

SOS Ballot National Advisory Board members include:
Ernest Istook Chairman,
Former Congressman, Heritage Foundation

Gilbert Baker
Arkansas State Senator, Former Arkansas Republican Party Chair

Clint Bolick
Goldwater Institute, Director Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation

Adam Hasner         
Florida House Majority Leader

Sydney Hay
President, Arizona Mining Association

Paul Jacob
Citizens in Charge, Founder US Term Limits

Brian Johnson       
Executive Director, Alliance for Worker Freedom

Jonathan Johnson  
President, Overstock.com

John Loudon
Missouri State Senator

Mark Meierhenry   
Former South Dakota Attorney General

Mark Shurtleff         
Utah Attorney General

Pat Toomey
President, Club for Growth

(Associations used for identification purposes only)

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