ACTION For An Immediate IMPACT on Certification Process

[G_j]

from: No Stolen Elections!


This coming Monday, December 13th, the Electoral College is slated to cast
its votes for President in state capitols across the country. Meanwhile,
the recounts in Ohio and New Mexico will have only just begun. No Stolen
Elections!, together with dozens of other organizations, has called for
nationwide protests on December 13th to defend the recounts, to make
visible the many voting rights violations and election irregularities which
call into question the integrity of the 2004 election, and to demand real
reforms to protect, extend, and deepen democracy. See: http://www.Nov3.US

No Stolen Elections! also endorses the following action plan, which is a
product of the Coalition Against Election Fraud working in cooperation with
Truth in Elections:

STRATEGIC ACTION FOR AN IMMEDIATE IMPACT
ON THE 2004 ELECTION CERTIFICATION PROCESS
& for shining a light on voting rights violations

Outlined here are campaigns to impact three parties to the election count
verification process:

- The Electoral College vote on December 13th in each state (mostly at
state capitols)
- Congressional certification of the Electoral College vote, Jan. 6th,
U.S. Congress
- Secretaries of State who acted in partisan and potentially unethical
or illegal ways

These campaigns are listed in order of priority. Given that December 13th
is very close, outreach to Electoral College delegates has to be our
immediate, top priority for the next five days. The next priority are U.S.
Representatives and Senators who are scheduled to vote to certify the
Electoral College results on January 6th in Washington, D.C. Last in
priority, more of a long-range campaign, are the problematic Secretaries
of State.

You can do these right now in your state, depending on who your Electoral
College Delegates, your Congresspeople and your Secretary of State
are. Below we lay out some general ideas for how to do this in your state
but please use your own creativity and initiative. Particularly for the
Electoral College work, speed is essential. Contact Truth in Elections for
more help at http://www.EconHumanRights.org/truth/ or Grace C Ross at
[e-mail]

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ONLINE DIRECTORIES:

National Association of Secretaries of State:
<http://www.nass.org/faqs.html>http://www.nass.org/faqs.html
NARA database for Electoral College (includes state by state) -
<http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/electoral_college/2004/>http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/electoral_college/2004/

Congress.org (find elected electives) -
<http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/>http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/


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Target 1) : Electoral College Delegates

Goals:

. Get electoral college delegates to use their role to create
publicity for election irregularities/voting rights violations, either
through public statements or by protest during the actual voting process
. Create visibility for election problems
. Gum up and ideally postpone the process as a protest

Steps:

1 Identify the Electoral College delegates from your state (check
out the Secretary of State website)
2 Research where they meet and rules for their voting process. The
likely voting date is December 13th.
3 Research who these delegates are and, to the extent possible,
what are their interests (it may not be possible with most pf them to find
this out in the limited time left).
4 Publicize their names to see if anyone in your networks knows or
share interests with any of them
5 Review voting rules for Electoral College electors (Secretary of
State website, or other state regulations) for possible ways to use them to
raise issues. Examples: Can riders be attached to the vote? Can an
elector table or ask for a postponement? Can he/she filibuster? Is some
kind of quorum required? etc. Think of a range of possible actions a
sympathetic delegate (likely not a Republican) can take- from non-intrusive
to very obstructionist.
6 If you can identify which delegates are both most likely to be
angry about election irregularities and most willing to step outside of
expected role as delegates, contact them first (don't overlook the power of
a profound patriotic commitment to the right to vote or a someone with a
stubborn commitment to their values)
7 If you find a delegate who is interested but needs more
information, put together information that is publicly available on the
internet about election irregularities/voting rights violations and get it
to them.as quickly as possible.
8 Ask if they would be willing to help publicize these
irregularities/violations and help make sure steps are taken to make sure
they are not repeated See if they would be willing to be part of a press
conference, for instance, at the gathering site before the vote, and would
they ask other delegates to join them?
9 If they seem very interested and more activist, ask if they might
be willing to actually use the delegate vote process to highlight the issue
­ review vote process and discuss means of delay, attaching stipulations or
objections, etc. If you have success in finding one or more such
delegates, work with them to provide materials, perhaps try to bring in a
legal expert to help frame the issues (a creative one), make media
contacts, send out press releases, etc.

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Target 2): US Senators and Representatives

Goals:

. To get at least one Senator and one Congressperson to object to the
Electoral College Vote Certification.
. To create visibility for election problems ­ the submission of an
objection means the two houses must separate and debate and then vote
separately. Imagine two hours of debate in both sides of the Congress on
the length and breadth of the voting violations in a state.
. To gum up the process as a protest against voting rights violations
and fraud.

Steps:

1 Identify any progressive US Senators or Representatives who might
do this. Remember the roadblock to the filing of an objection to the 2000
presidential vote was that there was no US Senator willing to join the
objection motion made by about a dozen Representatives . It requires at
least one US Senator and one US Rep.
2 Reach out to your networks, explaining the importance of putting
pressure on these people right now , especially if someone has a direct
connection to them.
3 If necessary for your networks, put together some basic information
on election irregularities and voting rights violations.
4 Try to arrange a meeting with local Representatives or Senators.
They're back home now from D.C. so this is a good time to try to do so. If
possible, include people in your delegation who work on issues of concern
to the elected representative or who have a direct or indirect connection
to them..
5 Start a call-in/fax campaign as well, or if you can't get a
meeting, have the call-in/fax campaign include a demand for a meeting.
6 Help them see reasons beyond the win or lose structure- this is an
opportunity to be an advocate for one of the most deeply held American
values, to stand for the rights of all people, justice and equality.
Impress upon them that there are a lot of voters who feel strongly about
this issue.
7 Urge them to commit to object on January 6 or to take the lead on
finding others.
8 Get a commitment.
9 Communicate any positive results, or elected officials who seem to
be leaning our way but need extra pressure, to us so that we can do what we
can on a national level to strengthen our overall efforts.

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Target 3): Secretaries of State who acted in unethical or partisan ways
(think Katherine Harris and Kenneth Blackwell)

Goals:
. Put the visible actors in the tampering with the election on notice
. Create visibility for election problems

Steps:
1 Research the process of the certification of the vote in your
state, the recall of Secretary of State, the legal bases for a recall ­
there may be more than one means of recall
2 Research any statements as well as actions that contravene the job
or ethics requirement of the Secretary of State
3 Create an initiative petition that points to the areas of unethical
or illegal behavior
4 Begin broad outreach for signature collection in the state,
including electronic gathering of signatures
5 Start publicity campaign requesting that Secretary of State step down
6 Create publicity mile stones ­ signatures from well known figures,
notables and/or when each thousand signatures is submitted for verification
or maybe local press releases when they are submitted at any town or city
hall ­ use each occasion to highlight one example of unethical or illegal
behavior.

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Distributed by No Stolen Elections! http://www.Nov3.US
Contact Truth in Elections for more help at
http://www.EconHumanRights.org/truth/ or Grace C Ross at [e-mail]

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www.Nov3.US NO STOLEN ELECTIONS!

"This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may
be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes
nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just
what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact
measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these
will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with
both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom
they oppress." ~ Frederick Douglass, 1857

[tommcintyre]

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3. bookmark this Demopedia page

http://www.democraticunderground.com/demopedia/index.php/Current_events

any other demos please post them on that page

[neversaynever]

4. SAMPLE LETTER + SEnate Addies

am currently scrambling to send this email to ALL senators, regardless of party affiliation. I encourage others to do the same. Here are the contact addresses.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Dear Senator:

Even though I reside outside your jurisdiction and as such may not be considered your constituent, I write you today regarding a matter that is of great concern to all Americans; indeed, to the very notion of democracy and the democratic process.

As you may or may not be aware, substantial controversy has arisen in the wake of our most recent presidential election. Charges of voting fraud, voter suppression and the disenfranchisement of minority voters have circulated not only on the internet and in the international press, but also within the ranks of the government and the citizenry. At present, there is enough evidence of irregularities, anamolies and incidents to strongly suggest that the results of the election currently scheduled for certification do not accurately reflect the will of the people because tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of voters were either prevented from casting ballots or their votes remain uncounted.

On Dec. 6, the House Judiciary Committee held a forum in Washington, DC, in which many people spoke passionately about the issues at hand and the implications involved in certifying the dubitable results of the November 2 election. In his opening statement, Congressman John Conyers stated: "This is not about John Kerry, this is about the voters. There were voters who stood in ten-hour lines to exercise their most basic and fundamental civic right. There were voters who worked for days to the polls for the elderly and the poor and to provide assistance to language minorities. As hard as voters worked for the vote, we need to work just as hard to make every single vote count."

As Mr. Jesse Jackson, Sr. reminds us in his puissant commentary on the state of affairs, especially as the issues at hand pertain to traditionally "underrepresented" groups, "the race is not over until it is certified that every vote is counted and until a full investigation shows that every vote was honored. And for the future credibility of the process, we must end the practice and precedent of voter suppression and disenfranchisement schemes."

Though the mainstream media has suppressed the controversy as effectively as partisan-efforts suppressed major constituencies' votes in this election, there are many thousands, perhaps millions, of concerned American citizens currently actively involved in the campaign to withhold certification of the election results until all the ongoing recounts and investigations have been completed.

This is not a partisan issue: it relates to the integrity of our democratic process. Whatever your partisan loyalties, whatever your political ambitions, I urge you to take a stand NOW in the name of democracy--a principle we currently seek to bring to the Middle East in a multi-billion-dollar campaign that has already cost us well over a thousand American lives and over 100,000 Iraqi civilian casualties. It is time for all Americans, our Senators and Representatives included, to demonstrate to ourselves and to the rest of the world that we do indeed represent the ideals of democracy: if we cannot conduct fair elections in our own country, we certainly cannot be taken seriously as representatives of democracy in the rest of the world.

Regardless of whether a proverbial "smoking gun" will ever be found to prove beyond a shadow of doubt that fraudulent tampering with machines led to the incumbent party's putative victory, there is every reason to believe that this election was "rigged" by suppressing the voices and votes of substantial portions of the population.

I urge you to review documentation of the Dec. 6 forums now available at the House Judiciary Committee website:

http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/voteforum.html

I furthermore encourage you to review additional evidence and documentation that has been compiled and collected by concerned citizens in their concerted, collaborative efforts to determine what, exactly, did happen in our most recent presidential election. The following website provides a comprehensive overview of documentation:

http://shadowbox.i8.com/

I urge you to vote your conscience and protest the certification of the final vote tally in congress. Anything else represents an unconscionable act of negligence on your part. The citizens have collected and presented enough evidence to merit and indeed to mandate that you do everything in your power to prevent the certification of these results.

I remain respectfully yours,

[G_j]

7. excellent letter

thanks!

[neversaynever]

5. this is getting so gd frustrating

the information overload is mindboggling -- the clock is ticking
where the FUCK can you just locate the addresses of all the electors, i.e. the people who will actually be casting these votes?

I've searched these pages up and down and cannot find them anywhere HELP?

Note, on the house judiciary committee page there is a "declaration of intent"

http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/voteforum.html

which i think should be sent to all the members of the electoral college, I'd be happy to send it if I could find the fucking addies.

Once again, late for class, once again scrambling to get emails out. Anyone who can help me locate these addies...would be greatly appreciated.

[G_j]

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