Fw: Senators MUST Object To Ohio "Vote" Immediately
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Smirnow"
To: "Bill Smirnow"
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 3:05 AM
Subject: Senators MUST Object To Ohio "Vote" Immediately
>
> Stop yet ANOTHER coup de etat by Bush and his
> criminal coup backers:
>
> To call all Senators toll free: 1-800-839-5276
> or 1-877-762-8762. Please call both your Senators
> irrespective of their party affiliation, pass this
> along to as many other lists, individuals and
> media as possible and call as many other Senators
> from other states as you can. Yet another
> "election" has been stolen with no end in sight on
> the presidential, senatorial, congressional and
> other levels. Tell your Senators to object to the
> counting of the Ohio electoral vote.
>
> Jesse Jackson [see below] failed to mention two
> things:
>
> 1. The strong ties between the Republican party
> and the vending/voting machines ownership
> [Diebold, Sequoiah, ES&S and others] AND
>
> 2. The fact that Kerry also won Florida and
> several other key battle ground states. Exit
> polls, with their historical track record being
> much greater than 99% accurate don't lie. The
> Republican party machine does lie as does every
> alleged Democrat that dosen't contest this sham of
> an "election."
>
> Maybe one of these decades or centuries we
> will do as the Ukranians recently did and demand
> free and fair elections.
>
> US Senate: http://www.senate.gov Key Senators
> to target are: Kerry, Kennedy, Harkin, Feingold,
> Boxer, Barak Obama, Corzine,Dodd, Ron Wyden, Byron
> Dorgen, Kent Conrad, Mikulski, Senate Leader Harry
> Reid.
>
> Pass this all around the internet ASAP and call
> into radio and TV talk shows including C-Span's
> morning show from 7AM to 9 or 10AM at:
> http://www.c-span.org
>
>
> http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010505A.shtml
> Senators Should Object to Ohio Vote
> By Jesse Jackson
> The Chicago Sun Times
>
> Tuesday 04 January 2005
>
> This Thursday in Washington Rep. John
> Conyers (D-Mich.), the senior minority member of
> the House Judiciary Committee, will formally
> object to the counting of the Ohio electoral vote
> in the 2004 presidential election. If any senator
> joins him, the counting of the vote is suspended
> and the House and the Senate must convene
> separately to hear the objections filed, and to
> vote on whether to accept them.
>
> The grounds for the objections are
> clear: The irregularities in the Ohio vote and
> vote count are widespread and blatant. If the Ohio
> election were held in the Ukraine, it would not
> have been certified by the international
> community.
>
> In Ohio, the gulf between exit polls
> and counted votes is vast and glaring. Blatant
> discrimination in the distribution of voting
> machines ensured long lines in inner-city and
> working-class precincts that favored John Kerry,
> while the exurban districts that favored President
> Bush had no similar problems.
>
> Systematic efforts were made to
> suppress and challenge the new voters in Kerry
> precincts, whether students or African Americans.
> Some precincts were certified with more votes than
> the number registered; others were certified with
> preposterously low turnouts. Voting machines,
> produced by a company headed by a vowed Bush
> supporter, provide no paper record. Ohio's
> secretary of state, the inappropriately partisan
> head of the state's Bush campaign, has resisted
> any systematic recount of the ballots.
>
> The systematic bias and potential for
> fraud is unmistakable. An in-depth investigation
> is vital - and the partisan secretary of state has
> opposed it every step of the way. In this context,
> Conyers and his colleagues in the House are
> serving the nation's best interests in demanding
> an investigation of the irregularities in Ohio,
> and objecting to business as usual in counting the
> vote.
>
> If Harry Reid, the new leader of the
> Democratic minority in the Senate, has any sense,
> he will lead members of the caucus to support
> their colleagues from the House and demand a
> debate that will expose the irregularities in
> Ohio. If Kerry wants to establish his continued
> leadership, he will stand first to join with
> Conyers and demand a debate.
>
> Will the debate overturn the outcome
> of the election? That is doubtful, although the
> irregularities in Ohio suggest that Kerry may well
> have won if a true count could be had. But the
> debate is vital anyway. This country's elections,
> each run with different standards by different
> states, with partisan tricks, racial bias, and too
> often widespread incompetence, are an open
> scandal.
>
> We need national standards to ensure
> that we get an honest count across the country.
> National standards, accompanied by a
> constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to
> vote for all Americans, will be passed only if
> leaders in the Congress refuse to close their eyes
> to the scandal, and instead stop business as
> usual.
>
> Conyers, Reid and Kerry will face
> harsh criticism for violating what might be called
> the Nixon precedent. When Kennedy beat Nixon by a
> few thousand votes in an election marked by
> irregularities in Illinois and Texas, Nixon chose
> not to challenge the result. Gore essentially
> followed that rule after the gang of five in the
> Supreme Court disgraced themselves by stopping the
> vote count in Florida. But the effect of the Nixon
> precedent is to provide those who would cheat with
> essentially a free pass. Particularly when the
> state officials are partisans, they can put in the
> fix with little fear of exposure so long as they
> win.
>
> So Conyers will step up, accompanied
> by other courageous members of the House. They
> will object to the count and demand a debate. To
> force that debate, they need only one member of
> the Senate to join them. Reid should lead the
> entire caucus to join them. Kerry should stand
> alone if necessary to demand clean elections in
> America.
>
> If America is to be a champion of
> democracy abroad, it must clean up its elections
> at home. If it is to complain of fraudulent and
> dishonest election practices abroad, it cannot
> condone them at home. But more important, if our
> own elections are to be legitimate, then they must
> be honest, open, with high national standards.
>
> The time has come to stand up for
> clean elections, and to let it be known that
> massive irregularities will not go unchallenged.
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------
> To call all Senators toll free:
> 1-800-839-5276 or 1-877-762-8762.
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