If it was good enough for the Ukraine - it should be good enough for the US...
This is from Kip Humphrey at ChainMail News
CALL TO ACTION: REVOTE ESSENTIAL IN OHIO
Investigations in Ohio have revealed a total and complete breakdown of the voting process that can only be explained by a systematic and willful intent by the election authorities in this state to disenfranchise the People and defraud the election process. There has been several instances of flagrant violation of Ohio election law, tampering of vote tabulation machines and discarded ballots.
The investigations have revealed that machines broke down, counted backwards, eliminated votes and registered votes for the wrong candidate. Nearly all voting machine "glitches" favored Bush, some giving him thousands of extra votes. Democratic and African-American neighborhoods experienced by far the longest lines on election day, the most vote spoilage, the most elimination of provisional ballots and the most victimization by precinct manipulation. Four hundred thousand callers phoned voter protection hotlines with complaints ranging from absentee ballots lost in the mail to outright voter intimidation and disenfranchisement. Partisan election officials with conflict of interest were actively involved in undermining voting rights of the people. There have been documented instances of illegal tampering of the vote counting machines before and after the election and before the recount could being in Ohio.
The U.S. House Minority Judiciary Committee has documented massive and flagrant violations of federal voting rights act in Ohio. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have questioned the elections' legitimacy in a series of rigorous and painstakingly detailed letters documenting the unprecedented extent and scope of vote suppression, violations of the federal voting rights act, and potential voting machine fraud in both the election and the Ohio recount.
Detailed information is available at "Information" at
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http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats>The electronic information from the voting machines has lost data integrity and is therefore invalid. A recount does not reflect accurately the will of the people hence necessitating a re-vote.
Similar problems have occurred in New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, Iowa, Florida and North Carolina.
The only way to find the truth about the will of the people is to have a statewide re-vote in these states.
Re-voting was conducted in Ukraine and it was fully supported by the U.S. administration and the same has to be done in all these states in the U.S. as well.
Further we state that the re-vote be conducted with a paper ballot to completely eliminate the possibility of electronic hacking and tampering. If voting electronically then a paper trail must be made mandatory. Further this re-vote should be directly supervised by the Carter Center for Peace or other International group respected for overseeing these elections that were formerly supervised by partisan politicians with conflict of interest.
In light of the above facts we ask that on January 6, 2005, Congress mandate a statewide re-vote starting January 15, 2005.
It would be difficult and impossible for us to continue to support a party or candidates who will not aggressively fight to prevent our elections from being stolen.
SAMPLE LETTER
Here is my letter as an example (please use as a guide but write in your own word):
Dear
,
The Ohio fall presidential election was a tangled mess of voter suppression, vote fraud, vote tampering, and electronic voting equipment denying citizens their voices and votes. This stain on our democracy is all the more appalling since the Ohio election results will choose our president and vice president.
To save our system of citizen rule, I ask you to sponsor or co-sponsor legislation demanding Ohio conduct a full, statewide manual revote for President and Vice President to be held on January 15th 2005.
To preserve faith in our system, said revote must be by independently supervised by the likes of the Carter Center for Peace, and be cast on paper ballots to avoid re-using suspect and compromised electronic voting and vote counting equipment.
Pursuant to a revote in Ohio, I request you stand in objection to the Ohio electoral vote when presented to the Congress for certification on January 6th, 2005.
As a , I require that fair and impartial elections be guaranteed and protected as the first duty of my elected representatives. If you do not stand up and act to preserve the integrity of the 2004 presidential election now, not only will you not enjoy my support and vote in the future, but I will work tirelessly to ensure you are not reelected. On the other hand, if you stand up for integrity and fairness in our election processes by denying the Ohio electoral vote, by voting in support of an Ohio revote, and by working to clean up our election process here in , I will stand with you and actively support you in the future.
With gravest seriousness,
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