TIDAL WAVE of citizen and government action

[cguttman]

This post below was written by Amy Kaplan. Please also check out (and keep checking)http://www.stolenelection2004.com/alerts.html for updated urgent actions to facilitate recounts, investigate vote fraud, and to find out about vote fraud protests around country.

The first action in this post is really easy--3 different pre-written letters in pop-up screen to Congressperson, local media, and C-Span about this important vote fraud hearing in Congress http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/120404W.shtml . You've got to go back to the first page each time to do each one, but you only have to put in your contact info once.
http://www.pdamerica.org/

You can also:
(1)Now! Contact C-SPAN by email or phone and ask them to televise this hearing. Main Number: [phone]; Viewer Services: [phone] (for programming questions)
(2) Monday morning, call the U.S. capitol switchboard three times (1-800-839-5276). Ask for your Representative, then both your Senators, and request that they attend this hearing.

A TIDAL WAVE of citizen and government action is being
taken to address Ohio voting irregularities.

In this email:
1. Members of Congress to Hear Testimony (&
corresponding actions for you to take!)
2. Litigation
3. Recount
4. Rally last weekend
5. Rev. Jackson's support
6. GAO investigation
7. House Judiciary Committee letter to Blackwell
8. Picket @ Blackwell's office

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1. Accumulated evidence and testimony from five Ohio
public hearings is now being taken to the Democratic
Members of the House Committee on the Judiciary on
Wednesday, 12/8/2004. Rep. John Conyers and other
Members of Congress are holding a forum on Ohio voting
irregularities and we have been invited to send people
as witnesses with a report and summary of our
findings.

** Please consider checking out this link, where you
can (very easily and quickly) send emails to your
representative in Congress asking them to attend
the forum and pick 5 local media outlets asking them
to cover the story:

http://www.pdamerica.org/

** To donate to the fund to help bring witnesses from
the Ohio hearings, please go to:

http://freepress.org/store.php#donate


2. As a result of the hearings, a lawsuit is being
filed challenging the outcome of the election,
alleging widespread fraud. The "contest of election"
lawsuit
will be presented today to a judge from the Ohio
Supreme Court on behalf of at least 25 voters who feel
their voting rights were compromised.


3. The Green and Libertarian Parties have initiated a
statewide vote recount, to begin in less than ten
days.
www.votecobb.org for more info and daily updates. also
see www.defendtherecount.org for updates from the
national voting rights institute.


4. 900 people attended a mass rally in Columbus at the
Ohio Statehouse on Saturday, December 4. Citizens
braved 15 mile/hour winds to demonstrate for
continued investigation, litigation, recount, and
recusal of Kenneth Blackwell. Greg Palast was featured
at the rally, and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee attended the
evening symposium.


5. Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition
have called for the recusal of Secretary of State
Kenneth Blackwell from the recount process based on
his
conflict of interest as co-chairman of the Ohio
Bush/Cheney re-election campaign. Jackson also calls
for a constitutional amendment to guarantee the
right to vote for all U.S. citizens and to empower
Congress to establish federal standards and
nonpartisan administration of elections.


6. The Government Accountability Office has agreed to
examine the security and accuracy of voting
technologies, distribution and allocation of voting
machines, and counting of provisional ballots as part
of an investigation of broad systemic election
administration issues.


7. The House Judiciary Committee Democratic Members
have sent a letter to Kenneth Blackwell asking him to
respond to allegations of specific irregularities in
vote tallying, registration peculiarities, counting
discrepancies, unusual results, overvotes, spoiled
ballots, machine problems, machine shortages, and
invalidated provisional ballots.

8. There are people planning to picket S.O.S.
Blackwell's office starting today, Monday, at 11:30 AM
to demand that he:
- start the recount; and
- agree to recuse himself from the recount; and
- agree to appear before the House Judiciary Committee
to answer questions addressed to him in a 14-page
letter dated 12/2/04 (signed by 12 Democratic members
of that committee); and
- refrain from designating the Republican slate of
presidential electors until such time as the recount
is finished.
For more picket details: Warren Linney (707-322-3886)