GAO Will Investigate 2004 Elections/Press Release/Conyers et al

[Gloria]

via the Common Cause site....


From www.commonblog.org

Common Cause blog....


Breaking News: GAO Will Investigate 2004 Elections
By Murshed Zaheed
Posted on Tue Nov 23, 2004 at 01:55:30 PM EST

The Government Accoutability Office is going to investigate the voting irregularities of 2004 elections. Here is the press release we just received in our email minutes ago:
Government Accountability Office to Conduct Investigation of 2004 Election Irregularities

(Washington, DC) Reps. John Conyers, Jr., Jerrold Nadler, Robert Wexler, Robert Scott, and Rush Holt announced today that, in response to their November 5 and 8 letters to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the GAO has decided to move forward with an investigation of election irregularities in the 2004 election. The five Members issued the following statement:

"We are pleased that the GAO has reviewed the concerns expressed in our letters and has found them of sufficient merit to warrant further investigation. On its own authority, the GAO will examine the security and accuracy of voting technologies, distribution and allocation of voting machines, and counting of provisional ballots. We are hopeful that GAO's non-partisan and expert analysis will get to the bottom of the flaws uncovered in the 2004 election. As part of this inquiry, we will provide copies of specific incident reports received in our offices, including more than 57,000 such complaints provided to the House Judiciary Committee.

"The core principle of any democracy is the consent of the governed. All Americans, no matter how they voted, need to have confidence that when they cast their ballot, their voice is heard."

[Blue Gardener]

1. This is a step in the right direction

If they find something, what can they do about it that will get us out of this mess we're in?

[Gloria]

2. kick

I thought this was impt. news???!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. It is, Gloria.

People go through burnout cycles, however. It will pick up.

[Pepper32]

4. CNN PICKED IT UP!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/23/election.investigation/index.html
Tuesday, November 23, 2004 Posted: 3:13 PM EST (2013 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Government Accountability Office plans to investigate complaints of several systemic problems with this month's elections, a group of Democratic lawmakers said Tuesday.

The investigation comes in response to two letters written by lawmakers to the GAO which address numerous media reports of irregularities in the 2004 vote and call for those to be reviewed.

[Gothmog]

5. Yeah

This is encouraging news.

[GetTheRightVote]

6. Thank you for the posting .... Hurray & its about time someone looks

into the issues surrounding election 2004,

BIG THANK YOU TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTIVES !!!!!
AND THE 5 MUSKTEERS.

[Smirking_Chimp]

7. Great news kick nt

[Niche]

8. How come I didn't get it in my daily GAO e-mail?

Please let me know if anybody else has this info from GAO "daily report email docs". And can you post it? (need a pretty please here) :bounce: Thanks.

[Califooyah Operative]

9. at the very least we can get some much needed attention out of this.

keep the pressure on!

[intheflow]

10. This is good news.

We can only hope their investigation into voting irregularities extends to include the statistical irregularities.