Denver protests Black Box Voting--spread the images!

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The Denver Voice 11/20 Denver Election Protest Rally

The Denver Voice

P.O. Box 300444

Denver, Colorado 80203

[e-mail]

303.355.4896 ext 307

Fax [phone] (Include Cover)

Coming
Tuesday, November 22, 2004- What's next for Denver's Mercury
Coalition for Honest Elections

Coming
Monday, November 22, 2004- What happened at the Rally....

Coming
November 24, 2004- Audio from the Rally....

Go to 11/18 Press Release...

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You Have The Right To Be Heard.

You Have The Right To NOT BE SILENT.

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE YOUR VOTE COUNT!

UNFAIR - UNVERIFIABLE -
ILLEGITIMATE

ELECTIONS

Press Release from 11/18/04:

On Saturday at noon on the Capitol steps,
a rally will protest the unfairness and illegitimacy of the 2004
election, and call for remedies, now and for future elections.
It is called by 150 people from diverse organizations who have
met six times in the past week at the Mercury Cafe.



First, 50 million people - over 40 per cent of the actual
electorate - voted on machines that leave no paper trail.
Republicans and Democrats wanted a trail at the time of the Help
America Vote Act. But a resolution to require it was never
allowed to come to the floor of the House by Dennis Hastert and
Tom Delay. Nevada had a primary which combined electronic
machines with a paper trail. It is neither difficult nor
expensive. Yet no move was made to make voting verifiable or
transparent to ordinary citizens.




Second, exit polls are never wrong. They have been used in
Georgia to overturn the Shevardnadze government and in Mexico
for Vicente Fox against the PRI. The exit polls were accurate
within a point in Utah, New York, Texas, and many other states.
Swing states, however, show a large and unexplained
differential, from 4 to 6 points, in one direction only: from
Kerry in the exit polls to Bush in the final results. Randomness
would require a scatter of votes, some for Kerry, some for Bush.
Further, For Pennsylvania (where Kerry won but by 4 points less
than the exit polls predicted), Ohio and Florida, the odds
against this happening are 1 in 250 million. See the paper of
Steven Freeman (www.truthout.org/docs_04/111404A.shtml). There
may be a plausible explanation aside from the obvious one - that
the machines and other measures somehow skewed the votes
illegitimately for George Bush - but it needs to be argued and
documented to put doubts about our democracy to rest. Contrary
to the wave of publicity about anomalies in Florida - that the
vote was supposedly fair - these two considerations show that a)
the election was dramatically unfair and un-transparent compared
to any other American election and all contemporary foreign
democratic elections, except Afghanistan and Iraq and b) that no
reasonable person can have confidence in the result.



Third, a large registration of black and Chicano voters occurred
in this election. Yet challenges produced long lines and a
disproportionate number of provisional ballots. In addition,
"spoiled" ballots come disproportionately from minority
communities. These special measures to disenfranchise minority
votes (referred to as "Jim Crow" techniques in the New York
Times editorials on Making Votes Count) are violations of the
Civil Rights Act.




We will have a diversity of speakers, including some who are
working on Colorado data.



contacts:

Professor Alan Gilbert, Graduate School of International
Studies, 303-697-7105, 303-881-1656 (cell), Ken Seaman
303-986-1773, or contact The Denver Voice by email at

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[henslee]

1. kick for the good people.

[Unforgiven]

2. Well

At least some people in this country have their heads screwed on straight and are focused.

[wantkerryin]

3. Thank you so much Denver! We need this everywhere!!!!!! n/t

[dewaldd]

4. Black Box Voting "Tea Party" Nov. 27, 1 pm, all over

http://www.votersunite.org/takeaction/bbballot-mediaalert.htm

Dump those damned black boxes!!