Election Monitors to Prevent Another Stolen Election in 2004-sign petition

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Election Monitors to Prevent Another Stolen Election in 2004

To: George W. Bush
We call on you to request expert election monitors to avoid an unprecedented electoral - and Constitutional - crisis over the Presidential election of November 2, 2004. Such a request was made by 13 Members of Congress on July 1, 2004 http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/tx30_johnson/HouseMembersUnitedNationsElectionMonitor.html.

We saw a preview of this crisis in 2000 in Florida http://democrats.com/2000. We believe the 2004 crisis will be worse because:

Across the nation, error-prone punchcard machines have been replaced by touchscreen machines http://democrats.com/search.cfm?term=touchscreen that have failed repeatedly in actual elections. These machines lack paper trails http://democrats.com/elandslide/(http://verifiedvoting.org , their source code is proprietary, and computer security experts believe these machines are hackable, so voters have no confidence their votes will be recorded and counted honestly http://blackboxvoting.org/ . To compound voter fears, Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell http://www.verifiedvoting.org/article.asp?id=828 vowed to "deliver" Ohio's crucial electoral votes to you
The crimes committed by partisan Florida election officials in 2000 were never punished http://democrats.com/floridagate , which sent a clear signal to partisan officials that they could violate election laws with impunity

As the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights documented in 2001 http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm , discrimination against minorities - mostly Democrats - in 2000 was widespread. More than half of the votes that went uncounted nationwide were cast by minorities. Most of these problems were never fixed, as the Commission documented in April 2004 http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2004/ready/ready04.htm

Most of the Florida non-felons whose voting rights were illegally revoked in 2000 have not regained their voting rights, and the 2004 "felon" purge was rigged to hurt Democrats by removing black "felons" and help Republicans by overlooking hispanic "felons." This revelation http://nytimes.com/2004/07/10/national/10florida.html - following a lawsuit opposed by Florida - created a furor, but officials insist they will "find other ways" http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040711/D83O93K00.html to purge "felons"


Also in Florida, Republicans eliminated the witness requirement for absentee ballots, creating a major opportunity for fraud http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/8449521.htm . Republicans are tricking new citizens into registering as Republicans by illegally pre-checking the "Republican" box http://www.news4jax.com/politics/3495828/detail.html


In Missouri http://nytimes.com/2004/07/09/opinion/09FRI1.html, the Republican Secretary of State is trying to stop mainly Democratic voters in St. Louis from voting early


There may be many other illegal activities underway at the state and local level that have simply not been discovered because no one is looking for them

Key officials in your administration seek the power to postpone (or cancel) the 2004 election based on warnings of terrorist attacks http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/061204_election_delayed.shtml , even though past warnings have been conspicuously politicized

Pro-Republican bias in the corporate-owned media, especially at Fox News http://www.outfoxed.org/, has been widely documented http://democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=media%20bias , creating an uneven playing field for the campaign. This problem is compounded by the extremely limited coverage planned for the summer conventions

All five Republican Supreme Court Justices who betrayed America http://www.amazon.com/gp/associates/link-types/marketplace.html?t=democratscom&asin=156025355X by throwing out 175,000 uncounted votes in 2000 remain on the Court, so any dispute that ends up in the Supreme Court will lack legitimacy

The American people share our concerns. A poll in June 2004 http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Voter%20Fraud.htm found 44% of all voters - and 62% of Democrats - fear a Florida-style debacle in November.

We believe observers who are experts in administering honest, transparent, and fair elections are needed for the "battleground" states (Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin) http://www.electionprojection.com/elections2004.html that will decide the Presidency. We call on you to request such experts from the United Nations http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/ead/ea_content/ea_types_of_assist.htm , the Organization of American States http://www.oas.org/OASpage/iadc/about.htm , and the Carter Center http://cartercenter.org/peaceprograms/program10.htm .


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1. Report: Touchscreen voting flawed in Fla.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/07/14/report_touchscreen_voting_flawed_in_fla/

Report: Touchscreen voting flawed in Fla.
July 14, 2004

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Touchscreen voting machines didn't perform as well as devices that scanned paper ballots in this year's Florida Democratic presidential primary, raising questions about the state's voting process for the November election, a newspaper reported Sunday.

An analysis of just under half of the ballots from the March 9 election shows that votes were not recorded for about one out of every 100 people using the new machines, or a 1.09 percent rate of undervotes, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. An undervote is when a selection cannot be detected on a ballot.

That's at least eight times the number of undervotes in the same election on paper ballots marked with pencils and tallied by an optical scanner, which had a 0.12 percent rate of undervotes, the newspaper reported.

Undervotes were a problem in the contested 2000 presidential election, in which many Floridians cast their ballots on punch-card machines. After 36 days of legal wrangling and recounts, George W. Bush won Florida, and thus the White House, by just 537 votes.

According to a review sponsored by The Associated Press and other news organizations, about 61,190 of 6.1 million total ballots in that election were undervotes, or a 1 percent rate.<snip>

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2. Dimson can't read. Why would you send him a petition. He

says if it can't be put in two paragraphs, it's not worth reading.

IQ test anyone?