Another request to write to Conyers re: delaying electors in Ohio

[roguevalley]

I don't think this has been posted but came from Mark Crispin Miller:

From P. Glass:

Write to Conyers to DELAY meeting of electoral college Ohio electors (scheduled to meet in Columbuson December 13) until every county recount results are concluded. The meeting of "electors" is an illegal meeting until the will of the people in Ohio has been determined.
January 6 is the date the NEW Senate (inludes Obama)receives the electoral votes and declares the name of the next president.
Until certified January 6- the outcome of the 2004 election has not been not completed. Write your senator not to permit Jan 6
certification without satisfactorily completed recounts.

(Remember watching the movie F9-11- the painful scene when Black Caucus could not get one senator to object to certification of 2000 election.. think Senator Barack Obama (D IL)

Keep writing!!

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

Addendum from pmk:

If members of the Senate and the House declare their intent to reject electors appointed pursuant to ANY discriminatory or doubful election they put EVERY state on notice. The following paragraphs are from the "Declaration of Intent" that we're asking members to publicly endorse:

There can be no arbitrary point in time -- whether it be a date scheduled for appointing electors, electoral voting, or electoral vote counting -- that can limit the right of the People to have their consent justly measured and expressed. An election is a survey not a contest.

With these principles in mind I would urge the duly authorized election officials in each and every state to make every effort -- whether it be ballot recounting, independent auditing, reopening voting, or even judicially-sanctioned statistical adjustment of results -- to assure that their election truly reflects the will of the citizens of their state.

See thedeanpeople.com for the entire declaration and Hearing Dustup:

You Heard it Here First to find out what happened regarding the declaration when it was brought up at the Conyers hearings.

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[Aunt Anti-bush]

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[bemis12]

3. Conyers doesn't have any authority to delay

the meeting. I think that the Ohio legislature does, but I wouldn't even bet on that.

[Andrea]

5. I believe the Governor Does so I wrote to him.

I believe it is Governor Taft of Ohio who has the authority to stop the certification of the Ohio electors. He is a Republican, so he won't want to help Kerry, but I figure it can't hurt to ask. I believe you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, so I really "kiss up" to him in this letter. I'm goal oriented and don't care if I have to pat him on the head if it will achieve the outcome.

Please write to him ASAP. Feel free to use any/all of my ideas, but please don't copy this verbatim. I believe individual letters have more impact.

Here is the link to his contact page:

http://governor.ohio.gov/contactinfopage.asp


Dear Governor Taft,

I am writing to you today about an issue of grave importance for the future of our democracy. As your constituent, I have not always agreed with you on every subject, but I have found you to be a reasonable man with the best interests of Ohio at heart.

Please do not certify the electors from Ohio to the electoral college until the recount is completed. The public's faith in our elections was severely eroded by the occurences in Florida in 2000. We cannot allow this to happen again. If the people do not have confidence in the outcome of this year's presidential election, I believe that faith in our electoral system will be irretrievably lost.

You stand alone in a unique position to restore confidence in our democracy. People want to know that the election was decided by an accurate vote count. You can either not certify any electors until the vote is completed, or certify both sets. There is a precedent for that in Hawaii in the 1960 presidential election. As governor of the state of Ohio, you are the only person in the world who has the authority to take a strong and meaningful step that will restore our election system. It is the basis of our democracy to count every vote. You can assure that this happens. It will greatly augment your legacy as governor of our great state, and do much to heal the huge rift in our soceity.

Sincerely,
Andrea Studebaker

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