Letter from Contest the Vote indicates Barbara Boxer is seriously

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considering joining Conyers in contesting the election results!

Dear ***,


Thanks again for signing our petition at www.ContestTheVote.org!

This week we have reached three significant milestones.

1. On November 17, 2004, we received our 10,000th signature on the online petition (more than 14,000 now) and have over 1,000 signatures on the hard copy petitions.


2. There has been much interest from across the country, so we decided to go national and extended the deadline for the petition due date to December 31, 2004. Each senator will now receive petitions with the signatures from his or her constituents. Additionally, we will forward all of the signed petitions to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary to encourage them to hold formal hearings on the election irregularities.


3. Four members of Contest the Vote went to Los Angeles on 12/15/04 and asked Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to join with Representative John Conyers (D-MI) and others in contesting the official electoral vote count on 01/06/05. Though she has not yet firmly decided to join Representative Conyers, she gave us every indication that she is seriously considering this matter and is consulting with the representatives from Ohio.


Her State Director, Tom Bohegian, spent a considerable amount of time with us over dinner answering our questions and reviewing this serious matter. He indicated that he would be sharing points from our in-depth conversation with Senator Boxer. We indicated to him that the numbers of signatures were increasing daily and would soon top 10,000. We advised him to inspect our website, www.ContestTheVote.org, for the latest information on this.


Our website has been updated to include a FAQ page and more links to other election related websites and organizations.

With your help we can hit 100,000 by the weekend! Please re-visit www.ContestTheVote.org and forward our example email by clicking the "Tell Others" button. It's easy, and within a few minutes you can empty your address book and save Democracy!


Have fun spreading the word. Print out our ContestTheVote.org bookmarks, take them to your local book stores or other fun place, and put a bookmark in any book or spot you see fit. Be creative. It's a great bit of activism that ties in with holiday shopping.


Continue to reach out to organizations, friends and affiliates. The response has been fantastic. Call in to a radio station. Send a letter to the editor. Don't forget to mention www.ContestTheVote.org!

Thanks!


Sincerely,


Maegan Prentice
Volunteer
Contest The Vote
[e-mail]

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1. good. eom

[berniew1]

2. Someone from Calif. should send her documentation of vote machine fraud

Systematic vote machine fraud, "Default to Bush" has been documented in swing states such as Ohio, Florida, and New Mexico- and some of this has been observed in other states as well.
http://www.flcv.com/fraudpat.html
http://web/northnet.org/minstrel/youngstown.htm
Other types of systematic fraud have also been observed in many areas.
These appear to explain the swing to Republican seen by the difference in the exit polls and official vote totals.

This means that Bush or another default candidate would get not only the votes of those who didn't notice that the intended candidate didn't register, but any intentional non votes or accidental non votes or unsuccessfully completed votes. Quite an advantage. Under normal circumstances this would result in a swing as much as 2 to 4% in many areas. But since it is a matter of record that the default was hard to override and sometimes impossible as reported by the EIRS reports and acknowleged by poll workers, only the most watchful or purposeful voters may have been able to successfully vote for a chosen non-Republican candidate. Thus the swing was likely much larger for some machines and even more in some minority precincts that appear to have been targeted to produce high levels of misvotes based on the large number of EIRS reports in minority precincts. There were also a few cases where precincts had machines set to default for a minor party candidate, but none observed to default to Kerry. These patterns have been confirmed by analysts and computer experts in several counties of each of these states. Other similar default related patterns have also been observed in some of these areas, such as failure to register a presidential vote when a voter tried to vote straight party line. This would result in the presidential vote going to the other “unintended” party.

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5. I wonder if contest the vote is working together with any other groups in

compiling the data they are presenting to her and other Senators. I was very happy to hear that they obviously have her ear. Do we know if any other senators are meeting with groups like "Contest the Vote" to examine evidence, stats, or even hear what they have to say???

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8. I took care of it. Thanks for the links, I was waiting to locate this kind

of info before contacting her. I live in the SF bay area. Emailed and phoned her DC office. Asked, per her assistant, her to be our attack dog, spoke about the voice we need with a message for the dems against the repugs. For instance the SS publicity campaign Bush is launching to brain wash people about SS condition like he did the WMD.

[anti-fundie]

3. Go Boxer Go!!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. 16299 Signatures now!....n/t

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6. Great! I kicked it again!

[corbett]

7. Kicking For Boxer!

Democrats and moderate Republicans from all over the Western US will pay attention when she jumps on board. Word is spreading!

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4816

[democrat_patriot]

9. 16932.

Sweet.

[blue agave]

10. kick