Common Cause Forum:VOTING IN 2004 12/7/04 - attend via conference call

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I am attending this meeting tomorrow: they will have some conference call capabiliy.

Last week we invited you to attend our day-long event Tuesday, Dec. 7 on voting and election reform, "Voting in 2004:  A Report to the Nation on America's Election Process ."  As I mentioned earlier, the conference begins at 8:30 a.m. and continues til 5:00 p.m. on Capitol Hill, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G-50.  We will hear from members of Congress, voting experts and others who monitored the presidential election, and will paint the clearest picture to date as to what happened on Nov. 2. All panel discussions will be followed by question and answer sessions.  Here is our agenda for the conference. http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=259543

We are happy to inform you that your response and interest in tomorrow's event has been overwhelming.  So far more than 500 of you have already RSVP'd online. The event is  open to the public, press, Members of Congress, congressional staff and the academic community. 

We have also heard from many of you who do not live in the Washington D.C. metro area, but are interested in learning more about the event, and about what isgoing on in states like Ohio. 

To accommodate you, we are  setting up a nationwide conference call shortly after our conference ends on Tuesday. The call will begin at  8 pm ET. I will be on the call, along with John Bonifaz, founder and general counsel of the National Voting Rights Institute. Mr. Bonifaz is a  key leader in national election reform efforts, who is also trying to make sure all votes are counted as cast in the 2004 elections. 

If you would like to participate in this conference call, please sign up  to host a house party via our party host center . http://www.partyhostcenter.com/commoncause/hostparty/index.cfm

We are using our online party center to distribute conference call codes to first 100 folks who sign up to host a party , because the number of lines we can make available for this conference call are limited.  We are encouraging you to set up this kind of community get together, using our online meeting tool at the grassroots level, because this allows us to get our message out to activists in greater numbers, and at the same time organize election activists at the local level.

Moreover, your house party can be simple--you'll probably already have holiday food on hand. Just invite some neighbors and friends for an informal and informative gathering.  These house parties will be a great opportunity for all of you to become leaders in the growing movement to work toward  meaningful election reform.  You'll have a chance to find out what we heard and learned in our Dec.7 conference, and the status of recounts of Ohio, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and elsewhere.

As always, if you have any comments and suggestions or would like to give us your feedback on our election reform agenda, please make sure to post them in the election related sections of our blog at http://www.commonblog.com/section/Elections