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EMunster Donating Member (477 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 05:43 PM
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Arnebeck's Letter to Congress Yesterday


apologies if this has been posted already:


Arnebeck letter to Congress re Presidential Electoral Challenge
by Clifford O. Arnebeck, Jr.
January 6, 2005

Dear United States Senator or Member of Congress:

Today, you are being asked to certify the reported votes of the Electoral College even though the status of the Ohio electors is still the subject of the meritorious election contest. You are being asked to do so on the basis of one or more of the following three fallacies:

1) The faith-based neocon fallacy that vote counts do not have to be independently verified.

This new "con" holds that facts may be overcome by assertions of faith by those in power. Thus, the Bush campaign co-chair for Ohio and Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell need not count 106,000 as yet uncounted Ohio ballots, because he has faith they would not make a difference in the reported 119,000 vote difference even thought these uncounted votes all are in areas of Ohio that demonstrated strong support for John Kerry, and because, as Secretary of State he has the power not to count them.

A corollary of this fallacy is that Ken Blackwell need not answer questions under oath. The answers to such questions might upset peoples' faith in the new "con."

2) The fallacy that Karl Rove is a nice guy/clean campaigner, and those who suspect otherwise with respect to this election which Bush was expected to lose, are conspiracy theorists.


much more:
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1068



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RaulVB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 05:44 PM
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1. Good for Mr. Arnebeck...
We just need to find 100 more like him...at least!
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Kota Donating Member (658 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 05:51 PM
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2. Thanks for posting, Arnebecks not done yet.
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