No Stolen Democracy

Majority of provisional ballots thrown out in November

Posted on Fri, Dec. 31, 2004

They're better odds than Lotto. Still, if you were one of 27,451 Florida voters forced to cast a provisional ballot in the 2004 election, chances are your vote didn't count.

Two-thirds of all provisional ballots submitted in the general election were rejected, according to a Tallahassee Democrat analysis of reports provided by the state's 67 county supervisors of elections. Most ballots were thrown out because the voter was not registered in that county.

Provisional ballots were required for the first time nationwide in the 2004 election as a way to give elections officials more time to verify ballots of voters whose eligibility was in question. It would be expected that most voters who don't show up on the voting rolls would be ineligible to vote.

Still, the high rejection rate gives some election activists pause.

For a full analysis of the use of provisional ballots in Florida, as well as what elections officials and voter activists think needs to happen next, read Saturday's Tallahassee Democrat.

(Source via Miamedia: The Votergate Resource Center)

Boston Rally for the RepublicMonday January 3, 7-9:30 p.m.Faneuil Hall (UPDATED PROGRAM)

Rally for the Republic
At the Historic Cradle of Liberty -
Boston’s Faneuil Hall
Monday, January 3
7 – 9:30 p.m.

Join the March to Faneuil Hall:
Gather at Boston Common by the State House at 6:30 p.m.

Call on Our U.S. Senators & Reps. to Do the Right Thing January 6
And Invoke our Constitutional Protections of Voting Rights for All!
Ask them NOT to certify the electoral votes of states where election results are still in question. Mounting evidence of voter suppression and vote tampering has emerged from Ohio, Florida, New Mexico and other states. Members of Congress plan a challenge in the Joint Session of the U.S. Congress on January 6, 2005. Ask your Senators and Reps. to join the challenge.

Stand in Solidarity with Voters Across the Country! Rally for the Republic will occur nationwide, in Columbus, D.C. & San Francisco on January 3-4. UPDATED PROGRAM Speakers to Include: David Lytel - Part of the 2000 & 2004 challenges to Congress against the certification of Electoral College votes for reasons of election fraud and civil rights violations

**John Bonifaz - General Counsel of the National Voting Rights Institute and Co-counsel for Presidential
Candidates David Cobb and Michael Badnarik in their demand for a meaningful recount of 2004 in Ohio

**Pat LaMarche – Vice Presidential candidate for the Green Party, Historian, Liberal talk show host

Jonathan Simon – Activist and Attorney, Collaborator with Steven Freeman on 2004 exit poll analysis

Tom Barbera - Waltham Elector whose motion asking for the investigation and remedy of election
violations was passed unanimously by all twelve Massachusetts Electors

Faye Morrison - Ayer Selectwoman, witness to voter intimidation and touch screen fraud in FL and OH

Donna Palermino, Esq. - Activist and Attorney, to speak on the legal aspects of the challenge

Campaign Volunteers - Local citizens to share their experiences of vote suppression

PLUS A SHORT VIDEO ON VOTE SUPPRESSION IN OHIO & Music by  Greg Greenway, folk singer Sponsored by the Coalition Against Election Fraud, www.caef.us - Contact us at [email protected]

**recent additions

Rally in Palo Alto on January 5 to Morn the Death of Fair Elections

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 31, 2004

A FUNERAL FOR FAIR ELECTIONS

WHO: Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (Peninsula Chapter), the Peninsula Raging Grannies, and the Bay Area Coalition for Election Reform

WHEN: Wednesday January 5, 2005 at 12:00 noon

WHERE: Lytton Plaza, University Ave. & Emerson St. in Palo Alto

WHY: On January 6th, Congress will convene to ratify the Electoral College votes in the 2004 Presidential Election. Congressman John Conyers (D-Michigan) and other representatives will object to the counting of the Ohio electors. We are asking our Congresswoman, Anna Eshoo, to join in contesting this vote.

Fair Elections died on Nov. 2, 2004.

She died of multiple causes:

1. Results did not match exit polls
2. Corporate control of machines & secret vote counting
3. Machines & software open to tampering
4. Disenfranchisement and racism
5. Partisanship

A wake will be held in Lytton Plaza, University Ave. & Emerson St. in Palo Alto, Wednesday January 5, 2005 at 12:00 noon. The causes of death will be announced and a brief eulogy will be offered, followed by a procession to Congresswoman Anna Eshoo's office on 698 Emerson, where flowers will be laid on the coffin. Public wailing will be led by the Raging Grannies.

For more information contact (650) 279-8761, Ruth Robertson.
And see the Election Fraud Slide Show: http://www.ElectionFraud2004.org

(via Miamedia: The Votergate Resource Center)

Former Congressman Peter Deutsch to Assist Challenge of Ohio Electors

For Immediate Release December 31, 2004
Contact Stephen Gaskill 202-257-9298
http://www.redefeatbush.com

Former Congressman Peter Deutsch to Assist Constitutional Challenge of Electors on Behalf of ReDefeatBush, the DoNotConcede Coalition and other Parties

Rallies for the Republic in Boston Monday and San Francisco Tuesday

[Washington, DC 12/31/05] The Committee to ReDefeat the President, a federal PAC better known by the name of its popular ReDefeatBush.com Web site, has secured the assistance of Peter Deutsch, who will conclude his tenure as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives at noon on Monday 1/3/05.  Deutsch will help ReDefeatBush and other organizations that are working on a Constitutional Challenge to the electoral votes of Florida, Ohio and potentially other states.

Preparations are underway for a public forum on Wednesday afternoon at the Capitol at which Deutsch will publicly question some of the key witnesses to activities that may have surpassed the boundaries of normal partisanship and crossed over into illegal activity in Florida.  For the benefit of Members of Congress considering supporting the challenge Deutsch will be publicly questioning Bev Harris of Black Box Voting, who witnessed the unlawful disposal of original voter registries that are required to be archived under Florida law and other key witnesses and experts.

"I am enormously pleased to be working with Peter Deutsch," said ReDefeatBush founder David Lytel, "because I am sure that he can explain what happened in Florida on election day with great clarity.   Peter's intellect, integrity and his standing with his former colleagues make him the ideal person to help us with this," Lytel added.

ReDefeatBush is sponsoring two Rallies for the Republic this week.  The first is in Boston on Monday at 7:00 PM at Fanueil Hall.  In addition to Lytel, former Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Pat Lemarche will speak, as well Tom Barbera, one of the Massashusetts electors; Faye Morrison, a Selectwoman in Ayre who has worked with Election Protection in several states; Donna Palermino, attorney who will speak on the legal aspects of the challenge and Jonathan Simon, a lawyer and investigator who has done original research work on the 2004 election results.

On Tuesday Lytel will be at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco at 7:00 Herbst Theater along with some recent graduates of the Electoral College in California and Emily Levy, who will report on her work with statistician Richard Hayes Phillips about  anomalies in the results in Ohio.  Music and humor will be provided by Verifygra.  Linda Bryket's 24 minute film on what happened in Columbus, OH on election day entitled video the vote will be shown at both events.

On Thursday January 6 there will be a Defend Democracy, Support the Challenge rally at noon in Upper Senate Park with Green Party Presidential candidate David Cobb,  Rev. Jesse Jackson (invited), voting rights activists Granny D, Deutsch, Lytel and other speakers. Musical guests will include Swing States Road Show, and singer/songwriters Yikes McGee and Jack Chernos.

ReDefeatBush has a quarter page advertisement scheduled to run on the Federal Page of the Washington Post on Monday and this week is putting out a 20,000 piece mailing asking for financial support for its activities.

(via Ohio Election Fraud.)

Rally at 10:00 A.M. on January 6th -- Lafayette Park, Washington, DC -- Cobb and Bonifaz to Speak.

In addition to the Defend Democracy Rally and Vigil scheduled to take place at Upper Senate Park on Capitol Hill, from 12:00 Noon to 4:00 P.M., there will also be a rally as follows:

On January 6th in Washington, D.C.

Tell Bush: We Will Stop Voter Disenfranchisement!

Tell Congress: Stand Up for Democracy!

On January 6th, 2005 Congress will meet in joint session to certify the 2004 presidential election. On that day, if one member of the House and one member of the Senate object to the certification of the vote, then all members of Congress will finally discuss these issues. On January 6, 2001, not a single Senator would join with the Representatives who demanded an inquiry into the Florida recount. This year, let's make our Senators take a stand!

Join Medea Benjamin, John Bonifaz, David Cobb, Congressman John Conyers (invited), Alysia Fischer, George Friday, Rev. Jesse Jackson (invited), Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (invited), Rev. Lennox Yearwood and many others as we: Rally at 10:00 a.m. in Lafayette Park across from the White House. We will then march to Capitol Hill to join with others at the U.S. Capitol at noon.

We need an investigation into the Ohio vote on November 2, the seriously problematic "recount," partisan, discriminatory decisions made by the Secretary of State, electronic voting machine fraud, not enough machines in predominantly Black precincts, and all of the other ways that voters were disenfranchised in the USA.

While our Senators and Representatives are inside Congress, tallying the electoral college vote, We the People must have a presence outside, bringing attention to the disenfranchisement, suppression and fraud that pervaded the 2004 election - and demanding real reforms to extend and protect democracy in the U.S. Please join us on January 6 in Washington, DC. Check www.votecobb.org, or www.pdamerica.org for more information.

Leading up to the January 6th events there will be a major rally in Columbus, Ohio on January 3 at 2 p.m. organized by Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and other groups. For more information go to www.rainbowpush.org.

If you can't come to DC, we urge you to organize an action on January 4th or 5th at a Senator's office in your community. And on January 6th let’s flood the Senate with calls all morning and afternoon; the Capitol Hill information number is 202-224-3121.

If the Ukraine can have a re-vote, why can't the U.S. have at least an investigation into vote suppression?

This call to action is initiated by United Progressives for Democracy, the Cobb/LaMarche campaign, Code Pink, D.C. Anti-War Network, Green Party of the U.S., Independent Progressive Politics Network, International Labor Communications Association, No Stolen Elections, Progressive Democrats of America, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Truth in Elections. To add your group send your endorsement to [email protected].
 

(viaOhio Election Fraud.)      

The 5,547 Vote March

Join us in rallying for our voting rights in The 5,547 Vote March

As recently reported, there are 5,547 ballots on which a voter wrote in Councilwoman Donna Frye's name but did not fill in the corresponding bubble, and were not counted. Dick Murphy's official margin of "victory" is 2,108 votes. In a poll of San Diego voters conducted Wednesday by SurveyUSA regarding the non-bubbled votes, fully 60% of those surveyed believe that the disqualified votes should be counted. The full survey report is available in PDF format at here. Clearly, the majority of San Diegans feel that every vote must be counted; we need to get as many of them out on the streets as possible!

Sunday, January 2nd, 1-3pm. Start at Horton Plaza, 4th and Broadway, rally and march the two blocks to the San Diego City Administration Building, in the Civic Concourse at 202 C Street downtown.

• Sign "The 5,547 Vote Declaration" and the Petition to Contest the Electoral Vote on January 6th
• Show support for Counting Every Vote
• Hear speakers tell us how we can get every vote counted and how we can contest the electoral vote on January 6th!
• On Monday, January 3rd, delegations will deliver the Declaration to Mayor Murphy and the San Diego Registrar of Voters, and the Electoral College Petition to Senator Barbara Boxer's local office.

Sponsors of The 5,547 Vote March:

North County Coalition for Peace and Justice
Peace and Democracy Action Group
of the First Universal Unitarian Church of San Diego
Plan of Action in a Changing Era (P.A.C.E.)
North San Diego DFA
San Diego Chapter of the Peace & Freedom Party
Janice Jordan, 2004 Vice Presidential Candidate, Peace and Freedom Party Ticket
North Central Democratic Club
ContestTheVote.org
Green Party of San Diego
S.A.V.E Democracy

Thank you all for your support and encouragement!

If you want to help ORGANIZE "The 5,547 Vote March," click here.

Action Memos

from We Do Not Concede Coalition.

from Stolen Election 2004!

from Bob Fertik (Democrats.com).

Ray Beckerman's Letter To Senators

(reprinted from December 9th):

Dear Senators Clinton and Schumer:

1. I and my wife are constituents of yours. 2. I am a lawyer by profession. 3. This year I worked as a voter protection hotline volunteer in Ohio from October 30th through November 2nd. 4. I learned of massive, systematic, flagrant disenfranchisement and voter suppression, affecting many hundreds of thousands of voters and would-be voters whose rights were trampled upon by criminals. 5. In addition, since the election, (a) I have learned of many other disenfranchisement techniques which occurred during and prior to the election, and (b) Secretary of State Blackwell has engaged in a systematic effort to defeat the Cobb/LaMarche recount from having any effect. 6 .It is clear to any thinking person that any set of electors appointed by Secretary Blackwell has not been lawfully selected. 7. In addition to what occurred in Ohio, there is overwhelming evidence that the State of Florida (a) engaged in many of the same techniques employed in 2000 there, and (b) engaged in a massive electronic vote tabulation fraud. 8. Accordingly, any electors sought to be seated by either Ohio or Florida are without authority under the law. 9. I am aware that you may not have the ability to prevent Mr. Bush from achieving a second unlawful coup d'etat, this one plunging our country irrevocably into dictatorship from its tradition of democracy. 10.But you are in a much better position than the rest of us to stand up and be counted so that history will be able to say which side you were on. 11.This matter is of such seriousness to us that I want to make it clear to you that if you fail to oppose the seating of the electors from the states of Florida and Ohio, as you failed to take action in 2000, my wife and I have determined that (a) we will never again vote for you, (b) we will never again contribute to your campaign, and (c) we will urge all our friends and relatives to do likewise.

Sincerely yours,

Ray Beckerman

(via Ohio Electoin Fraud.)

Message from TruthInVoting.org

Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of our country.

Rep. Conyers has committed to contesting the 2004 Ohio Electoral College vote on January 6th.  Given the incredible pressure to ignore all the alleged vote fraud and not to question whether Bush's alleged victory was a sham, Conyers' actions show uncommon courage.  Is there even one Senator who can match Conyers' courage and dedication?

Probably not, unless all of us let them know, in no uncertain terms, that they will not be representing us unless they join Conyers in fighting for a fair consideration of the abuses and fraud in Ohio. We must let them know that if they wish to represent us, they must demand that every vote is counted (and recounted when necessary) and that every vote will count toward the official result of the 2004 election.

If you still have any doubt that the 2004 election was a sham, be sure to look at this powerpoint slide show: http://www.electionfraud2004.org/presentation.pdf

We now know, beyond any reasonable doubt, that this election was a sham.  We can only guess why the mainstream media isn't covering the story and why Congressional members are loathe to discuss it.  The sad truth is that today, in the U.S., our democracy is weaker than the Ukraine's. I hope it isn't too late to change that.  Please join me in standing with Rep. Conyers by encouraging your Senators to support him in contesting the Ohio vote.  Get informed, get mad, get loud, from now through Thursday, at the very least.  Remember, they have no power without our consent.  For any politician that fails to support democracy in this dark hour, we will have two words: You're Fired!

You could start by sending faxes, e-mails and letters to editors this weekend.  Then, forward this e-mail to your friends and colleagues. Start hitting the phones Monday morning 8:00 am Eastern, 5:00 am Pacific and don't let up.  (links to Congressional contact info are included below)

Thank you for all you're doing-- it does make a difference,

Marc
TruthInVoting.org
 

(via Ohio Election Fraud.)

Message from ContestTheVote.org

Message from ContestTheVote.org:

Today, we surpassed the 27,000 mark with our online petition. The hand signed version of the petition has over 1,500, and more are rolling in hourly. We are nearing the conclusion of our petition campaign. There are still more than 30 hours to get the word out! Please go to www.ContestTheVote.org right now and click on 'Tell Others'. Then dump your entire address book. Dig deep! We can make 50,000 signatures by the deadline, which is 8:00 AM, PST on Jan 1, 2005.

This is crunch time.

Hand delivering the petitions to the senators by constituents will have an additional impact. We still need volunteers to print and deliver the petitions to senators in many states. If you are interested in volunteering, please let us know. Send us an email with “Volunteer” in the subject line and your contact information (name, address, phone, email address) in the body of the email.

We are continuing our efforts to coordinate with other groups. If you are organizing a rally or related event, please let us know. We will list it on our web site and send out a mailing to people in your area.

Contest the Vote is turning up all over. Grassroots participation has been strong, with people collecting signatures at rallies and events around the country. We’ve gotten lots of coverage, including airtime on Air America. Much thanks to all who have helped get our site listed on hundreds of sites and blogs online. We are now listed on over 500 different web pages, including the front page of Michael Moore’s site. Not bad for 3 weeks’ work!

Thank you for your support in keeping kitchen table activism alive.

Sincerely,

Maegan Prentice
www.ContestTheVote.org
[email protected]
 

(via Ohio Election Fraud.)