Happy New
Year! Please scroll down to find out what you can do
to force a debate on the validity of election on Jan. 6th by
getting at least one Senator and other representatives to contest vote
which will help prevent a right wing agenda, as well as help promote a
serious investigation of vote fraud and suppression, and help institute
vote reform. Even if you've done some actions about this,
please read on to see what more you can do today and tomorrow before
the electors are accepted! Thank you and please
forward, Cheryl
What does
a Newspaper from Bush's home town of
Crawford Tx, Jesse Jackson, and the ranking member of the minority
House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers have in common? They
all support getting a Senator to object to the election results on the
6th! Several House members say they will contest so we just need
one Senator to get the ball rolling. What will this do? It
will lead to a debate of 2 hours for each state contested.
Some say Florida and New Mexico--which both have had
evidence of vote fraud-- should also be contested in addition
to Ohio to add 4 more hours of debate over the stolen election.
After the debate there will be a vote in both
houses but even if it doesn't lead to Bush being removed, it is urgent
for the country to know that the election did not run "smoothly".
Bush is now preparing to ram through his right wing agenda claiming a
"mandate" because of his election triumph. (Of course, even if he
had honestly won those votes,it was by the smallest percentage of any
incumbent.) But there are too many unanswered questions about the
election to act like nothing is wrong. The first indication that there was rampant vote fraud was
Univ. of Pennsylvania's Dr. Steven Freeman analysis that found that the
odds of exit polls (which are much more accurate than other polls) in
the three key states of Florida, and Ohio being so far off from
the "official" vote tallies by chance are 662,000 to 1. http://www.appliedresearch.us/sf/Documents/ExitPoll.pdf
The country must know that the vote did not go
smoothly, there was evidence of vote fraud and deliberate
major suppression of the vote in minority and other Democratic
enclaves in Ohio, Florida, New Mexico and elsewhere,
see
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20050103110048797. The
country should also know that the Ohio recount was a sham that
only recounted a pre-planned 3% where there were fewer anomalies, that
voting machines were tampered with by Triad officials, and even then
counties that were supposed to have a full recount-- because of the
wide discrepencies between the hand count and the machine count of 3%
of that county--were prevented from doing so (see http://www.votecobb.org). In
addition, none of the ballots that didn't have any vote recorded for
President were hand counted even though Kerry had specifically asked
for this (among his other recount requests that were ignored).
The country should also be informed about the testimony from Clinton
Curtis who swore he wrote software to hack the vote for Florida
Republican Tom Feeney; about the discriminatory decisions
in the election and recount made by a partisan Ohio Secretary of State
who refused to answer Representative Conyer's questions about the Ohio
election; and about the fact that millions of voting
machines around the country were owned by a company whose CEO
vowed to "deliver Ohio electoral votes to Ohio", were vulnterable
to hacking, and had no paper trail to do audits; as well as the fact
that the central vote tabulators in every state were vulnerable to
hacking according to Bev Harris of Black Box Voting.
As a
result there must be a full house Judiciary committee where the black
box voting machines can be impounded and real voting reform including a
paper ballot for all voting methods must be instituted!
The
point is that the public will for this investigation and reform will be
much stronger if Congress contests the vote and a full debate in
Congress is allowed to happen.
In
addition, Bush will not be able to claim that the vote went so smoothly
and he is deserving of instituting a right wing agenda that he can push
down the throats of all Americans.
This
is why we must find at least one Senator --and also try to convince all
our representatives-- to contest the vote and join the debate.
To find
out Jesse Jackson's reasoning
Press
conference tomorrow on challenging election
To read
Bush's hometown paper's reasoning
WHAT
YOU CAN DO? Today the 5th and tomorrow the 6th until when
1p.m. Congress is supposed to count the votes.
(1)Email
your own Senators, Representative, and House minority Judiciary
Committee with one click (Note. You may have already
emailed your Senators with True Majority's excellent email.
However, this email also goes to your Congressperson (and House
minority Judiciary Committee, who can use this as "ammunition" for its
case) as well as your Senators. Don't we want as many of our
representatives as possible voting against reading the electors as they
currently stand?
"I urge you to join
Representative Conyers on January 6th in not counting
the Ohio electoral votes, as well as not counting Florida and New
Mexico electors ,because of evidence of voter fraud and suppression in
those elections, For more information see http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20050103110048797
Ideally contesting
the election on the 6th would result in a revote of the contested
states but even if it "only"results in a full Congressional debate, a
serious investigation which can impound the black box voting machines
and real voting reform, as well as the nation's realization that Bush
does not have any mandate since there is strong evidence that he has
not "won" the election in a fair way, it would be well worth it."
http://www.usalone.com/contest.html
(if you
don't want to cut and paste this message but would rather have a
pre-written message--which you could add or edit--and you haven't
already done so you could send an easy email with True Majority to your
Senators instead http://www.kintera.org/siteapps/advocacy/index.aspx?c=irKQL0NSE&b=280765&sid=43089314&action=1581&template=x.ascx )
(2)
Call, fax, visit their offices--even without an appointment you can
see someone from their local office--today and tomorrow early
(before 1 p.m.) if you can't go to D.C.. Call the congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121 and/or
visit http://congress.org
. These count more than emails in terms of showing how
concerned you are.
(3)Contact Most Likely Senators.
(a) Several
groups say Boxer is the most likely to contest. A group
of 20 grassroots activists recently said that she needs more people to
call her. You can call/ fax her at: phone (202) 224-3553 fax
(415) 956-6701
(b)One click
to contact Barbara Boxer, Senator Russell
Feingold, Senator, Patrick Leahy, Senator, Edward Kennedy,
Senator Robert Byrd, Senator Richard Durbin to ask them to
challenge http://www.pdamerica.org/
(d)if
you want to do more, other ideas to contact most
likely Senators
(4) There
is a demo in D.C. on Jan. 6th sponsored by Jesse Jackson, etc. to
urge
This is the
info for the demo
Greyhound
fares are pretty cheap (e.g. roundtrip NY to DC is $31!)
(5) Make
this page a favorite to find out about new ways to make sure
all our votes count after the 6th!