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In fifteen public votes, automated ticketing machines have never survived. The public rejected the use of photo enforcement in five more municipal referendum elections Tuesday. America's fourth-largest city, Houston, Texas, was home to the most hotly contested vote. The group Citizens Against Red Light Cameras, run by brothers Paul and Randy Kubosh, gathered enough signatures to force the issue onto the ballot against the wishes of the city council and in spite of a legal attack from camera operator American Traffic Solutions (ATS). Outspent by a factor of ten to one, the group nonetheless won a majority of the 335,778...

Automated photo enforcement is a growing cancer that is underminding the very fabric of our civil liberties. A number of foreign or multi-national companies have already established or are in the process of establishing U.S. operations in anticipation of an explosive new growth market—U.S taxpayers. These companies—usually from countries that do not share our history of civil liberties—the professional lobbyists who sell them, the legislators who allow them and the progressive judges who re-affirm their legality are all contributing to the erosion of the very principles on which our country was founded. It's time to tell our representatives that enough...