UPDATED! National Media Blaster: NYTimes article, Ohio Hearing Video, MORE

[tommcintyre]

:kick: :nuke: <BLAST 'EM, then come back and kick it by posting "Done" Thanks > :kick: :nuke:

Updated 12/13

(The next two posts contain the new letters used in the blaster.)

CONGRATULATIONS DU! 86,631+ EMAILS SENT!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=161351&mesg_id=161351

We are off to a good start! In the past couple of days we have had reasonably balanced coverage from both AP and the NYTimes! Without a doubt, this is the best opportunity we have had since election day! <Could our 86 thousand plus emails influenced them?>

Now, we have an even greater opportunity to force more media coverage; and we have more “mainstream” type facts to help convince and build public awareness (the NYTimes article, the Affidavit, public hearings, Kerry asking questions, and a lawsuit being filed - links in next post below).

So we all need to take positive action now - today! If you’re in a big hurry, just send the first group of 98 contacts since it contains the biggest media (mostly TV).

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http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity.htm

New and Improved!

Now you can use the National Media Blaster to reach the top 98 national media contacts with just one click of your email send button!

And, if you choose, you can reach a total of 391 with just three more clicks!

[tommcintyre]

1. LETTER TO MEDIA:

Subject: 2004 Election Fraud is very, very, very serious!

The story of 2004 Election Fraud is fundamental to American democracy, and includes the "privatization" of our election system (Bush supporters owning the secret, proprietary source code that runs the electronic vote tabulation machines all over the country--a condition made to order for fraud), overwhelming evidence of election fraud through control of electronic voting, severe vote suppression by Republican election officials against minority voters in Ohio and Florida, in plain violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and an on-going cover-up.

Currently, at least four very important stories are developing regarding 2004 Presidential election irregularities and election fraud. How you handle these and future stories is critically important for the American people and for your organization. Many Americans have lost faith in the U.S. mainstream news media, due to your failure to adequately cover the Bush administration's false justifications for the Iraq War, and many other important stories. You are strongly suspected of covering up Bush administration lies, corruption and deception.

The 2004 Election Fraud story is too big to “keep a lid on it.” If you do not give it the coverage it deserves, you will not only lose out as a news organizations, in competition with other news sources, including new alternative news sources on the Internet, but you will also be failing in your responsibilities as journalists and as Americans.

Here are the current stories:

1 - 12/15 NYTimes: Lawmaker Seeks Inquiry Into Ohio Vote - asks the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a county prosecutor in Ohio today to explore "inappropriate and likely illegal election tampering".
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/politics/15ohio.html?adxnnl=1&oref=login&adxnnlx=1103129347-Sb0Nn2xF7zbMB5Qax04QDA

- Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed (TRIAD: Affidavit, Conyers letter, everything HERE)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121604Z.shtml

The most damming evidence (in the Affidavit linked above):
"He advised Lisa and I on how to post a "cheat sheet" on the wall so that only the board members and staff would know about it and what the codes meant so the count would come out perfect and we wouldn't have to do a full hand recount of the county. He left about 5:00 PM."

2 - Representative John Conyers held a second forum on the Ohio election questions Monday, December 13th, in Columbus, Ohio concerning new evidence of election irregularities and fraud in Ohio. The many participants include other Congressional Representatives, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and key lawyers and witnesses in on-going election lawsuits.
- 12/13 Conyers/Ohio hearing video file:
http://www.fugw.org/ohio

Transcripts:
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/voteforum2.html

(more links below)


3 - COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Democrat John Kerry has formally requested that county elections officials allow his witnesses to visually inspect the 92,000 ballots cast in Ohio in which no vote for president was recorded. The request is one of 11 items that Kerry is asking for as part of the recount that Ohio's 88 county boards of election will begin this week, according to a letter sent to the election boards over the weekend.
http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=2682767

- The investigation involves enough votes "to possibly change the outcome," according to an interview of lawsuit participants, with Laura Flanders on Air America on Sunday. (The interview should be available online on Monday, December 13th.)
http://www.airamericaradio.com/shows/lauraflanders

- Entire text of letter:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/13/16140/513


4 – Alliance for Democracy Co-Chair Cliff Arnebeck filed a "Contest of Election" Lawsuit in Ohio Supreme Court early on Monday December 13th. Rep. Conyers sent a letter requesting injunctive relief of the Ohio electors - i.e., that they either step aside or vote provisionally pending the outcome of the case.
http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/

- Rep. Conyers et al.: Urgent request to Ohio Governor (et al.) to delay, or treat as provisional, choosing electors until recount is complete.
http://my.core.com/~dlrslr/ElectionResults2004/LetterFromCongress.pdf

- Challenge asks Ohio's top court to review vote: "The challengers who went to the Supreme Court question whether Bush won the key swing state by 119,000 votes, guaranteeing his victory over Democrat John Kerry."... "The challengers allege unlawful ballots were added to the total and legally cast ballots were altered. Without listing specific evidence, the complaint alleges 130,656 votes for Kerry and John Edwards in 36 counties were somehow switched to count for the Bush-Cheney ticket."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002118804_ohio14.html

Petition: http://joeorgren.com/MossvBush1.pdf

Injunction: http://joeorgren.com/MossvBush2.pdf


Will you be among the media that gives these stories the coverage they deserve?


More links:

- Startling new revelations highlight rare Congressional hearings on Ohio vote
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/985

- 12/8 watch the Conyers Forum online (search "ALL RECENT PROGRAMS >>", then click on "House Forum on Ohio Election Voting Procedures":
http://www.c-span.org/

Or paste the direct link below into the Address window of your Internet browser:
rtsp://cspanrm.fplive.net/cspan/project/c04/c04120804_conyers.rm

- Judiciary Democratic Forum - Preserving Democracy - What Went Wrong in Ohio - December 8, 2004
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/voteforum.html

- From Selma to Ohio: A Report from the Conyers Hearing
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/120904W.shtml

- Rep. Conyers et al.: 34 Election-Related Questions for Kenneth Blackwell (Ohio Secretary of State) Submitted 12-2, still no response.
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohblackwellltr12204.pdf

- Conyers Follow-up Letter:
http://www.pdamerica.org/downloads/2004VotingIssues/ohblackwellrespfollowup121404.pdf

- Blackwell responds to Conyers and the GAO Letter!
http://www.pdamerica.org/downloads/2004VotingIssues/ohblackwellresp121404.pdf

- Link to over 100 under-reported election irregularities/potential fraud stories (11-2 to present):
http://www.independentmediasource.com/election_art_1128_1204.htm

[NJCher]

4. Tom, thanks for all your hard work in getting this ready for us

I used the blaster on Monday! It was great knowing I'm part of that 86,000!


Cher

[tommcintyre]

5. Your Welcome! I need to go to bed now. ;+}

It's just after 9 in the morning here ( I pulled another "all-nighter".) So if you (and others) could keep this kicked (so it doesn't disappear), it would be much appreciated.

[Junkdrawer]

9. GREAT WORK TOM...

A Big :thumbsup:

[tommcintyre]

19. Thanks Junkdrawer, I took the following quote from your post:

Cheat Sheet - Cheat Sheet - Cheat Sheet - Cheat Sheet - Cheat Sheet
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x161200

The most damming evidence (in the Affidavit linked above):
"He advised Lisa and I on how to post a "cheat sheet" on the wall so that only the board members and staff would know about it and what the codes meant so the count would come out perfect and we wouldn't have to do a full hand recount of the county. He left about 5:00 PM."

[KaryninMiami]

20. Once again, Tom- You are amazing. Thank you for doing this!

The response from my last email to my list returned at least 10 people who responded. Not bad indeeed. I will send this out to them in the morning. The've had a few days break from my bugging them so it's time to do it again!

Great Work!

[tommcintyre]

29. Thanks for your support and encouragement Karyn. :D n/t

[tommcintyre]

2. "TELL A FRIEND" LETTER

I’m emailing you to ask that you join me in urging our national media to cover the 2004 Presidential Election problems. These problems are so serious that they have put the results into question. At the request of 12 Congressmen, the GAO (the Congressional investigative department) has agreed to an unprecedented investigation of the 57,000 reported irregularities. THIS IS NOT A DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN OR INDEPENDENT ISSUE. It is an issue that must concern all voters. It calls into question the results of the 2004 election, and potentially jeopardizes our future elections. Please go to the url below and send the following letter to our national mainstream media.
http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity.htm

P.S. If you would like to know more about all this, please watch the 12/8 and 12/13 Conyers Forums online (links below).

You can also read short summaries (or the full articles) of the Under-reported stories, and see for yourself how the National Media has been neglecting this important story (link below).

Sincerely,


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Subject: 2004 Election Fraud is very, very, very serious!

The story of 2004 Election Fraud is fundamental to American democracy, and includes the "privatization" of our election system (Bush supporters owning the secret, proprietary source code that runs the electronic vote tabulation machines all over the country--a condition made to order for fraud), overwhelming evidence of election fraud through control of electronic voting, severe vote suppression by Republican election officials against minority voters in Ohio and Florida, in plain violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and an on-going cover-up.

Currently, at least four very important stories are developing regarding 2004 Presidential election irregularities and election fraud. How you handle these and future stories is critically important for the American people and for your organization. Many Americans have lost faith in the U.S. mainstream news media, due to your failure to adequately cover the Bush administration's false justifications for the Iraq War, and many other important stories. You are strongly suspected of covering up Bush administration lies, corruption and deception.

The 2004 Election Fraud story is too big to “keep a lid on it.” If you do not give it the coverage it deserves, you will not only lose out as a news organizations, in competition with other news sources, including new alternative news sources on the Internet, but you will also be failing in your responsibilities as journalists and as Americans.

Here are the current stories:

1 - 12/15 NYTimes: Lawmaker Seeks Inquiry Into Ohio Vote - asks the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a county prosecutor in Ohio today to explore "inappropriate and likely illegal election tampering".
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/politics/15ohio.html?adxnnl=1&oref=login&adxnnlx=1103129347-Sb0Nn2xF7zbMB5Qax04QDA

- Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed (TRIAD: Affidavit, Conyers letter, everything HERE)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121604Z.shtml

The most damming evidence (in the Affidavit linked above):
"He advised Lisa and I on how to post a "cheat sheet" on the wall so that only the board members and staff would know about it and what the codes meant so the count would come out perfect and we wouldn't have to do a full hand recount of the county. He left about 5:00 PM."

2 - Representative John Conyers held a second forum on the Ohio election questions Monday, December 13th, in Columbus, Ohio concerning new evidence of election irregularities and fraud in Ohio. The many participants include other Congressional Representatives, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and key lawyers and witnesses in on-going election lawsuits.
- 12/13 Conyers/Ohio hearing video file:
http://www.fugw.org/ohio

Transcripts:
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/voteforum2.html

(more links below)


3 - COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Democrat John Kerry has formally requested that county elections officials allow his witnesses to visually inspect the 92,000 ballots cast in Ohio in which no vote for president was recorded. The request is one of 11 items that Kerry is asking for as part of the recount that Ohio's 88 county boards of election will begin this week, according to a letter sent to the election boards over the weekend.
http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=2682767

- The investigation involves enough votes "to possibly change the outcome," according to an interview of lawsuit participants, with Laura Flanders on Air America on Sunday. (The interview should be available online on Monday, December 13th.)
http://www.airamericaradio.com/shows/lauraflanders

- Entire text of letter:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/13/16140/513


4 – Alliance for Democracy Co-Chair Cliff Arnebeck filed a "Contest of Election" Lawsuit in Ohio Supreme Court early on Monday December 13th. Rep. Conyers sent a letter requesting injunctive relief of the Ohio electors - i.e., that they either step aside or vote provisionally pending the outcome of the case.
http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/

- Rep. Conyers et al.: Urgent request to Ohio Governor (et al.) to delay, or treat as provisional, choosing electors until recount is complete.
http://my.core.com/~dlrslr/ElectionResults2004/LetterFromCongress.pdf

- Challenge asks Ohio's top court to review vote: "The challengers who went to the Supreme Court question whether Bush won the key swing state by 119,000 votes, guaranteeing his victory over Democrat John Kerry."... "The challengers allege unlawful ballots were added to the total and legally cast ballots were altered. Without listing specific evidence, the complaint alleges 130,656 votes for Kerry and John Edwards in 36 counties were somehow switched to count for the Bush-Cheney ticket."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002118804_ohio14.html

Petition: http://joeorgren.com/MossvBush1.pdf

Injunction: http://joeorgren.com/MossvBush2.pdf


Will you be among the media that gives these stories the coverage they deserve?


More links:

- Startling new revelations highlight rare Congressional hearings on Ohio vote
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/985

- 12/8 watch the Conyers Forum online (search "ALL RECENT PROGRAMS >>", then click on "House Forum on Ohio Election Voting Procedures":
http://www.c-span.org/

Or paste the direct link below into the Address window of your Internet browser:
rtsp://cspanrm.fplive.net/cspan/project/c04/c04120804_conyers.rm

- Judiciary Democratic Forum - Preserving Democracy - What Went Wrong in Ohio - December 8, 2004
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/voteforum.html

- From Selma to Ohio: A Report from the Conyers Hearing
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/120904W.shtml

- Rep. Conyers et al.: 34 Election-Related Questions for Kenneth Blackwell (Ohio Secretary of State) Submitted 12-2, still no response.
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohblackwellltr12204.pdf

- Conyers Follow-up Letter:
http://www.pdamerica.org/downloads/2004VotingIssues/ohblackwellrespfollowup121404.pdf

- Blackwell responds to Conyers and the GAO Letter!
http://www.pdamerica.org/downloads/2004VotingIssues/ohblackwellresp121404.pdf

- Link to over 100 under-reported election irregularities/potential fraud stories (11-2 to present):
http://www.independentmediasource.com/election_art_1128_1204.htm

[Kralizec]

3. Get the Blaster going! C'mon DU!! FOCUS!!!! n/t

[texpatriot2004]

6. How does this work? I have tried to use it before, several weeks

ago and couldn't get it to work. It's my mistake I am sure. I was trying to use the Senate Blaster before. Can someone give me a step-by-step breakdown?

[keepthemhonest]

10. what you need to choose from one of the the

two columns are you aol netscape(email) choose the one on the right.
then copy(left click to highlight and then right click to copy) the email addresses. Then move that to your email (compose) to.

then go back and copy the body of the letter and move that to your email letter(keep both pages open,it is easier)

then send. If that works and you feel overzealous then go for the next three sets of email lists below the first one you chose. I hope this helps, I am not that computer savvy but I was hoping someone else would answer your question.

The third on won't let me send it out all at the same time because there are to many going t one domain(LA times) so you can separate them.

good luck and kepp us posted on how you do.

[tommcintyre]

56. Great Explaination!

"third on won't let me send it out all at the same time because there are to many going t one domain"

Interesting.. I don't have that problem when I send out. I guess there's a difference between email progs or ISPs?

[Kralizec]

7. don't ignore it. nt

[keepthemhonest]

8. i'll blast them again right now

thanks for updating us

[texpatriot2004]

11. Thanks for the help KeepThemHonest. It worked. Done. :-)

My Subject Line: Please Investigate and Cover the Questions and Irregularities of the US 2004 Election

I had the same problem with the 3rd one...too many LA Times addresses. Other than that, my only other issue was that I have to send number four later due to an hourly quota I wasn't aware of. Saved it as a draft for now...no biggie. Pretty painless. Thanks for the mediablaster.


:hi:

[keepthemhonest]

12. wow that is great

I had a hard time with it at first too, but with all of us sending this stuff out with the media blaster this is fantastic.Tom has really made it easy for us to make a difference.

Tom by the way can you do something like that for all the congressmen, senate ,judiciary and Secretay of states,governors and stuff like that. then when we want to send stuff to all of them we can. I think we could make an impact. I would email them all daily if needed.(is that harrasment?)

let me know what you think

[keepthemhonest]

13. time to wake up tom n/t

[Kellis]

14. WOOHooo! GO tom!

Thanks big guy!This is excellent.

:kick:

[mom cat]

15. Help! Something is fishy with my e-mail ever since I first used the

blaster. when I try to send the messages, I get this error:

The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was '[e-mail]'. Subject '2004 Vote Fraud? Don't Fail us Like 2000!', Account: 'mail.comcast.net', Server: 'smtp.comcast.net', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '550 destination not valid within DNS', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 550, Error Number: 0x800CCC79

I get this message no matter who I put in the "to" box. I am also now getting this mesage no matter who I try to E-mail or if I try to send a responce to any E-mail that I have recieved.
:wtf: Is anyone else having this problem, or is it just me?

Does anyone have some solutions?

When I go to the Control Panel and check "MAIL", it displays my correct e-mail address. :shrug:
Any suggestions would be appreciated.. Thanks.

[tommcintyre]

17. Hmmm... I've sent out thousands of emails (test msgs), no problem.

and the first "participant" goes back to 11-23. No problem like this ever reported. In fact the only problem ever reported is that some messages come back undeliverable (an ongoing challenge since people get hired/fired etc.).

There is no "comacat.net" in the emails sent out. "The rejected e-mail address was '[e-mail]'."

I think it is triggered by a domain name problem for you. I copied and pasted the error msg(Error Number: 0x800CCC79) into google, and here's the number one answer:

http://www.domainavenue.com/support_oe6_0x800ccc79.htm
How to deal with error number 0x800CCC79

When you try to send email messages you may receive an error message that your email cannot be sent due to SMTP relay blocking. The exact error message may vary, but it will be something similar to the following. The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was '<someone@some_domain.com>'. Subject: '<Test or anything>', Account: '<Test>', Server: '<remotesmtp.wyith.net>', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '550 <someone@some_domain.com>... Relaying Denied', Port: 25, Secure (SSL): No, Server Error: 550, Error Number: 0x800CCC79

The cause of this error is due to the fact that all our SMTP servers require authentication. Please consult the "SMTP authentication settings" and "special settings for MSN, AT&T, AOL.com or Cox.com users" section in the domain manager <link next>.

http://www.domainavenue.com/domain_manager.htm

Important notice

If you have registered your domain name through us before the acquisition of DomainAvenue.com by Wyith Incorporated in 2000 November, your username and password will no longer be valid. Please report to us immediately and we will issue you with a new username and password so that you can enjoy our FREE Web hosting and other bundled services. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Log onto the domain manager

You can configure your domain name by logging onto this section. Please type in your domain name (without the leading www) and your password in the spaces provided below and then click "Log onto Domain Manager."

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Next message down:

http://www.domainscape.co.uk/technical_faq/outlookexpress_errormessages.htm

0x800CCC79
The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected email address was '[e-mail]'. Subject 'some subject', Account: 'pop.', Server: smtp.', Protocol: SMTP, Server response: 550 Cannot route to <[e-mail]>', Port 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 550, Error Number 0x800CCC79

Please refer to 0x800CCC0E
The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'XXX.XXX.XXX', Server: 'XXX.XXX.XXX', Protocol: XXX, Port: XXX, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

First refer to configuring Outlook / Outlook Express <link>

Find out if you have "Caller Line Identification" or try this - Double left click My Computer, Double left click Dialup Networking, right click connection, left click Properties clear Area Code box, type in tel no box ,ISP Telephone No.]

"The line was dropped and connection lost while the user was either downloading or sending mail" - Try unplugging other devices on your phone line. Check to make sure you don’t have call waiting.

Is the modem set to disconnect after a set time? Control Panel, Modems, and Connection.

Is the modem phone line still plugged in?

Make sure you are not trying to send e-mail while connected to another ISP.

configuring Outlook / Outlook Express <link>
http://www.domainscape.co.uk/technical_faq/configure_outlookexpress.htm

How do I configure email using Outlook Express?



Please Select Account Type:

Email Account / Primary Hosting

Standard Hosting / Business Hosting

If you are experiencing problems with the configuration click link below for common error messages received when attempting to Send/Receive.

View Outlook Express Error Messages

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There are a lot more links on the google search. I hope this helps you. Please let me know what the outcome is, and I will save you response if any anyone ever asks me about this again. <I was amazed at how many potential email errors were listed (especially on the second page).

[mom cat]

64. Thanks for all of the info. Fortunately, Imaginary Girl was right...

The offending e-mail was stuck in my out box. It is now deleted, and I hope that all will be well because I want to play with the blaster some more. I can put my conspiracy theory away for my fear that someone was messing with the e-mail systems of activists...at least for now. Thanks again. :smoke:

[imaginary girl]

26. Is there a letter still in your outbox? That's what it sounds like ...

keeps trying to send it and can't. You might be able to go to your outbox (or the equivalent) and check ... delete the message if there's one there.

[mom cat]

63. Thanks Genius! I never would have thought of that! It is deleted!

:yourock:

[imaginary girl]

71. Glad it worked! If only we could only fix our broken democracy so easily!

[mom cat]

16. kick and thanks

[Tuesday_Morning]

18. It's fun to blast 'em

Thanks Tom

[newyawker99]

58. Hi Tuesday_Morning!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[imaginary girl]

21. Done. And Thanks!

[Bubblie]

22. Done!!

Thanks so much...

[tommcintyre]

38. Welcome Bubblie! and your welcome! n/t

[bj2110]

23. done.

[rdmccur]

24. You are missing the latest

lawsuit filed in Ohio with Kerry-Edwards joining in this time!
That's damn significant! posted at http://rawstory.com/exclusives/kerry_ohio_suit_1215.php

[tommcintyre]

27. Thanks, looks good. I'll add it under here:

4 – Alliance for Democracy Co-Chair Cliff Arnebeck filed a "Contest of Election" Lawsuit in Ohio Supreme Court early on Monday December 13th. Rep. Conyers sent a letter requesting injunctive relief of the Ohio electors - i.e., that they either step aside or vote provisionally pending the outcome of the case.
http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/

[KaryninMiami]

25. Kick and blast away kids!

[tommcintyre]

28. CORRECTION: SHOULD READ - "UPDATE 12/15"

Sorry, I guess I was tired (stayed up all night making this.) :eyes:

[Junkdrawer]

30. Kick

:kick:

[tommcintyre]

31. Morning kick n/t

[keepthemhonest]

33. did you see my question posted # 12

I know youhave done alot of work already, I was just wondering how hard it would be to make a blaster for the congress and senate and others?

[tommcintyre]

35. I missed it. Actually, there are two Senate Blasters: Individual and group

Tell the U.S. Senators you want them to contest the Presidential election!
The U.S. Representatives are ready to do it. All it takes is just one Senator to sign on too! In 2000, not even one would! Let's not let this happen again! Email them all and let them know how you feel!
http://www.independentmediasource.com/senatevote.htm


Tell YOUR U.S. Senators you want them to contest the Presidential election! <etc>
http://www.independentmediasource.com/senatevote_individ_sa.htm

They are both functional (have been used many times already); but they need some fine tuning - especially the group one. It returns a bunch of "undeliverables" (19 and growing). More and more Senators are going to form mail. I plan to have them fine-tuned by Sunday.

As far as the House of Rep goes, that may not get done for a while. It's very large, and again many have gone to form mail, so I won't do it until I'm fully satisfied with the Senate one.

In the next couple of days, I will probably make an "express" National Media Blaster. It will be based on the C-Span one (link below). Everything done in about 2 seconds (no copying and pasting). The trade-off will be: very limited pre-prepared text (like the C-span one - one short paragraph), and less media blasted (in the seventies?) I will do this because not enough people are responding to this one here; and they jumped all over the C-Span one - commenting many time how easy it is (sigh). I prefer they use this one, but if they use the Express one, its still waay better than if they don't send any email at all. ( I will keep this longer version here - I will just give people a choice (similar to how they can just send set one now). Hopefully, once they see how easy it is, they will become users of the "long version" (which takes under 5 minutes to send all 391).
http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity_tell_cspan.htm

Thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=144486

[keepthemhonest]

36. yeah i think I noticed that last time too

I got abunch back saying they were changing to an easier way to get their emails. Something is better than nothing.did you make those blaster as well, goo job. Let us know when you get it working and I'll blast them letters any time I feel like it. Right now I am so upset, it seems like we just keep running into obsticals and nothing going our way. I just want to give them all an earfull on a regular basis. I will start composing my letter while you are working away. Thanks again for your efforts.

[tommcintyre]

53. "did you make those blaster" Yes, plus more will probably be coming n/t

[bunny planet]

32. I just blasted and I feel goooooooooooood.

Kick!!!!!:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

[Kellis]

34. afternoon

Kick!

:kick:

[LEW]

37. kick

kick

[keepthemhonest]

39. kick it

[keepthemhonest]

40. remember these facts

I just sent them through the blaster to media(all 4) and senate
20 Amazing Facts about Voting in the USA

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies:
Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Lan ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight
of the U.S. voting machine industry.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804La ...

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are
brothers.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.h...
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Lan ...

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign
organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to
helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sun ...
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886

5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S.
He became a senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/colum ...
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitr ...

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long connected with the Bush
family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by
the Senate Ethics Committee.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.p ...
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's
vice-presidential candidates.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm
http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.ht...

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and
counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Land ...

9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail
of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data
coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put
in by voters.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evote ...

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket
machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a
paper trail.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm

12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as senior managers and
developers to help write the central compiler computer code that
counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

13. Jeff Dean, Diebold's senior vice president and senior
programmer on Diebold's central compiler code, was convicted of
23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

14. Diebold senior vice president Jeff Dean was convicted of
planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of
sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the
polls in Ohio.
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh....

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the
security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs
could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the
movie here <http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov > .)
http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch
screen voting machines with no paper trail.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sund ...

18. All--not some--but all the voting machine errors detected and
reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermat ...
http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modloa ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's
brother.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/ne ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articl ...

20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida--again always favoring
Bush--have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are
recommending further investigation.
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeR ...
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/governm ....
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands...
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
http://uscountvotes.org /



This is the DU member formerly known as demo@midlife.

[tommcintyre]

52. Good Idea! I'll add this as an alternate message. n/t

[StephanieMarie]

61. I just sent those on the media blaster too. n/t

[Jo March]

41. Done - but copied and pasted the email addys into my own

emails. :)

[VTGold]

42. Done!

[Melissa G]

43. KICK!

[mom cat]

44. This tool really rocks....Even I can use it...KICK!

[KaryninMiami]

45. Kicking it again and blasting from my other email address!

I just love getting back all those replies from media desks all over the world. Just knowing that someone somewhere is having the in-box flooded by mail from us makes me feel really good and hopeful that maybe someone will stop for a minute and think about what an impact their decision could make in the world. Call me an optimist but I truly believe that most people selected journalism, media and reporting because of their desire to make a difference and tell the truth from a place of integrity.

[senegal1]

46. Blasted all four email address sets!

[thjay]

47. done, kick

[thjay]

48. my inbox is filling up with auto replies

I hope they aren't just auto forwarding any email with the words "vote" or "fraud" in the subject line to the trash.

[tommcintyre]

51. Welcome thjay!

Not likely, they would lose too much mail, and would have to include too many words (look at the drop-down menus of titles to see what I mean.) Also, the auto-reply means they recieved your mail.

[Lil]

49. kick to the top -n/t

[Lil]

50. kick

[keepthemhonest]

54. ok guys lets do some emailing

so they will have full boxes before they go for the weekend

[grumpy old fart]

55. Done

Good to have a way to let 'em know we care. Thanks!

[Carl Brennan]

57. FAX them from your desktop!!

http://www.a2.com/telecom/freefax.html

http://www.tpc.int/sendfax.html

[StephanieMarie]

59. Done to All

Here's my subject line, "Your Chance to Save Democracy"

[StephanieMarie]

60. kick n/t

[StephanieMarie]

62. kick n/t

[Lil]

65. kick n/t

[Melissa G]

66. kick

[txindy]

67. kick

:kick:

[Lil]

68. Check out "TIME TO TAKE ACTION! -- MASTER LIST" link below:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=172302&mesg_id=172302

[Lil]

69. kick to the top

[Lil]

70. Blast the media!

[Lil]

72. kick

[Lil]

73. Media blasters ROCK

[Lil]

74. kick

[tommcintyre]

75. mom cat says she can do all 391 IN FIVE MINUTES!

Can you beat that record?

[Lil]

76. mom cat rules! prrr

[tommcintyre]

77. C 'MON! Any of you up to "THE MOM CAT CHALLENGE"! prize available!

Maybe you get a new president?

[Lil]

78. I am trying, but mom cat rules. :-) (bits and pieces of time)

[Lil]

79. kick

[Lil]

80. kick for tommcintyre's hard work! yay

[Lil]

81. kick

[Lil]

82. kick

[Angry Girl]

83. excellent!

[eowyn_of_rohan]

84. 3rd round, done

[errorbells]

85. I told them

what I think....:grr:

Thanks!

[Lil]

86. Done "BLAST 'EM, then come back and kick it by posting "