Background:
There have been explosive allegations of vote fraud in Ohio hearings including vote machine tampering, hacking and vote suppression. Ranking Minority Member of the House Judiciary Committee Conyers has asked FBI and county prosecutor to investigate. Kerry has been part of the recount process and has used his legal team to join the Greens in court proceedings about the recount including preserving evidence of vote machine tampering by Triad .

The Greens who have initiated the recount are calling for 3 non-partisan vote integrity actions actions: Tell Blackwell to answer questions from Judiciary Committee, Write to the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Sensenbrenner; and contact the Media about evidence of vote fraud and vote suppression.

Senator Barbara Boxer and a number of Congresspeople including Representatives Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Conyers to Contest the Ohio election. They knew that the contest would lose but did it anyway to highlight the elections problems, and urge a serious investigtion and voting reform.

TODAY'S ACTION ALERTS
(Please do as much as you can now, then bookmark this page if you want to do more ASAP)

1. [revised 12/31]Sample Letter and Contact Info for Chairman Sensenbrenner and the FULL House Judiciary Committee to urge him to have full House Judiciary Committee hearings on Ohio, Florida, and New Mexico vote fraud and suppression. He can IMPOUND the black box voting machines that hold the key to vote.

2. (NEW) Send Easy pre-written email to representatives to institute voting reform

3. (NEW): Sample Letter and Easy Way TO SEND MEDIA A MESSAGE About why they should report on vote fraud evidence and do their own investigations; Also NEW: Demand media release raw polling data to Rep. Conyers who has requested this info.

4. (NEW) Make 20 calls to HELP FIND OTHER VOTERS who have had PROBLEMS voting in Ohio .

5. (revised 12/21) Urge Kerry to be more vocal about vote fraud and vote suppression and use his leftover funds raised for recounts and from his campaign to have a complete vote fraud investigation.

6. [revised 12/11] Contact Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell: Demand he Answer Questions from House Judiciary Committee,

7. (NEW!) There are some more great actions on solarbus votefraud actions site Click Here

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1. Email The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee to Have Hearings on Ohio Vote Anomalies and Impound Voting Machine "Black Boxes"
 

Representative John Conyers and other voting advocates want FULL House Judiciary Committee hearings which have the power to subpoena witnesses and impound the black boxes that hold the votes that contain the clues to suspicious votes. Conyers has contacted the Chairman of the Committee Representative F. James Sensenbrenner to request this.

The Greens are asking everyone to email Sensenbrenner to have hearings on vote irregularities in Ohio. Randi Rhodes--a radio personality on Air America--has also put out a call to contact him about irregularities in Floridaand has suggested a sample letter .

This is a copy of sample letter is below combining both requests. You should be nice because we are asking for a favor. He is from Wisconsin and may be fairly reasonable and rational even though he is a Republican.

Dear Chairman Sensenbrenner:

I am writing to request that as head of the House Judiciary Committee you hold hearings on voting irregularities and allegations of vote fraud and suppression in Ohio, Florida and New Mexico. This is a letter from Representative Conyers about Ohio vote anomalies. http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/conyersvotestmt12804.pdf

I also urge you to subpoena black box voting machines that contain votes from Ohio and Florida counties which have suspicious tallies.

Furthermore, the discrepancies between the exit polls and the election results which many statisticians claim are indicative of fraud, see http://rawstory.rawprint.com/1204/conyers_exit_polls_1221.php and http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/997

Your committee should be also investigating if the data about the enormous increases in population, registration, and voter turnout in three Ohio counties which almost entirely gave Ohio to Bush is accurate see http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1012

In addition, in Florida, one would have to believe that 100% of Republicans, 50% of Democrats, and 100% of Independents all voted for President Bush, despite exit polls to the contrary. To further arouse suspicion, all these counties used the same optical scanner system.

If you would subpoena and examine the votes in Florida and Ohio, you could put to rest the doubts and suspicions that many Americans harbor about the election. This would serve our country, our democracy, and help heal our great national divide."

Sincerely,

[your name]

A.Please copy this letter--making any changes you want-- and send to Chairman Sensenbrenner
sensenbrenner@mail.house.gov

B.You can then copy this letter to the whole committee
http://judiciary.house.gov/contact.aspx

You can also email your representatives to ask for voting reform

CLICK HERE for easy pop-up pre-written letter
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?ItemId=18051

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A.Easy way to send message to major media

CLICK HERE: http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity_express.htm

B.HERE IS ANOTHER SAMPLE LETTER AND MORE COMPLETE MEDIA LISTS

Please write to media and tell them to cover this important story of vote irregularities and allegations of vote fraud and suppression.

You can say something like: "Why has your affiliate as well as the rest of the media largely ignored a hearing given by representative John Conyers, Ranking Minority member of the House Judiciary Committee on vote irregularities and allegations of vote fraud and suppression in Ohio, as well as the story of election anomalies in the rest of the country which serve to cast doubt on Bush's victory. In three of the major battleground states- Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania -Univ. of Pennsylvania's Dr. Steven Freeman found that the odds of Exit Polls (favoring Kerry) in all of three key states being so far off from the "official" vote tallies by chance are 662,000 to 1.  http://www.appliedresearch.us/sf/Documents/ExitPoll.pdf .

The Conyers hearing included an affidavit by Clinton Curtis alleging Congressman Tom Feeney asked him to write a program to hack into voting machines and another affidavit by Sherole Eaton which may indicate that an employee from Triad Voting Systems tampered with voting machines before the Ohio recount. This is a statement by John Conyers on this subject http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/conyersvotestmt12804.pdf

Furthermore, John Conyers just asked the major networks to released the raw data of the exit polls because of the discrepancies between the exit polls and the election results which many statisticians claim are indicative of fraud, see http://rawstory.rawprint.com/1204/conyers_exit_polls_1221.php and http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/997

The media should be investigating if the data about the enormous increases in population, registration, and voter turnout in these three Ohio counties which almost entirely gave Ohio to Bush is correct http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1012

.To contact Ohio media
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/?command=state_search&state=oh

This is an easy way to send to 3 state media--you can choose Ohio, D.C. ,NY
http://www.democraticunderground.com/cu/cu.php?az=blaster

and this is a large list of national media sources http://www.rumormillnews.com/MEDIA_EMAIL_ADDRESSES.htm 

Another Media Action concerning the fact that the media has not released raw exit poll data to Representative Conyers who has requested it

Phone numbers to newsrooms or station, and then ask for national news desk:
CBS (212)975-2161
FOX (310)571-2050,
CNN (404) 827-1511, or station, to leave  comment, 404 827-1500,
ABC 212 456-7777 press 4 then leave comment,
NBC 212 664-4444 (ask for national news desk).

"Release the Raw exit poll data from Nov. 2, 2004."

Script:

Hello, I am calling to ask the news department to release the raw exit poll
data from the election on November 2, 2004. Every year our country has had
exit polls that have been released the same night as the election.

The people in the Ukraine knew what the exit polls said. We deserve to have
as much democracy as the Ukraine, don't you think? Release the raw exit
polls data, not the exit poll data mixed up with the voting record- just
what the people said with no info on what the vote count was, like we have
always had it until the 2004 election.

Please. Representative Conyers of Michigan should also be interviewed. He
has asked that the raw exit poll data be released, but the networks said it
wasn't ready. It was ready on November 2nd! What are you hiding?

For the sake of democracy, please, do this. The airwaves belong to the
people and we should know what the results of these exit polls were. This
is America. We are supposed to have open elections and freedom of the press
is for the people to know the truth.

 (You can add this if you like) I am very upset that the network TV has not
covered election anomalies in a respectful way. It's hardly covered at all.
For that reason, I am not going to watch TV news or buy the products that
are advertised on the news until I hear on the internet that the raw exit
poll data has been released. This is America where we have the right to
know what happened in our election. This is the first year there has been
no real exit poll numbers released. We need to know what those who were
interviewed said when asked who they voted for. In the Ukraine, the winner
of the exit poll was the one who won on Sunday, but the so-called "real
vote" was rigged. The exit polls have always been valid, so why are you so
afraid to say who won the exit polls on Nov. 2? IF we can't trust the
elections and the networks to cover them truthfully, we don't have a
democracy anymore!

 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/People-v-Ohio-n-Florida/message/6541

 

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4.(NEW) Help find more Ohio voters who experienced problems voting

Call voters to help them report on their experiences for investigation http://www.projectforamerica.org/index.php?form=call_voters

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5.[revised 12/21] Urge Kerry to spend money to investigate vote fraud now, as well as speak out about vote fraud and vote suppression evidence.

TAKE ACTION:

Contact Kerry ,the DNC , and the Ohio Dems and say something like:

"I adamantly support Kerry's requests to increase the transparency of the recount process. However, Kerry should spend some of the money he has already raised for recounts and left over from his campaign to help pay for his recount requests if counties are willing to comply with them but can't pay the price. He should also spend the money to do a complete investigation of vote fraud now. Furthermore, he should be vocal about new evidence of vote fraud and vote suppression !"

Note: When People have called Kerry's Senate office about recount and unconceeding they have been told that Kerry cannot conduct election business from his Senate office and they are referred to the DNC, so any messages sent to his Senate office may be forward to the DNC. However, it may still a good idea to they to contact Kerry in this more direct way.

Kerry's Senate (202) 224-2742 - Phone (202) 224-2742; Fax 202-224-8525 and Email http://kerry.senate.gov/bandwidth/contact/email.html
The DNC Phone 202-863-8000 and email http://www.democrats.org/contact
Ohio Democrats 614-221-6563 (voice) 614-221-0721 (fax) email dan@ohiodems.org;
and Kerry Campaign (not sure if anyone still checks it): phone 202-712-3000, try ext.5377

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7. Revised 12/11 Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell Action:Under Revised Blackwell Sample Letter and Contact Info Are Instructions and Easy Way To Send Media A Message

Blackwell has told recount volunteers that there is a "lockdown" on public records and refused to let volunteers view records! -see http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2004/12/blackwell-locks-out-recount-volunteers.html

The Greens are asking Blackwell to answer questions from the House Judiciary hearing about Ohio Anomalies (see below for more actions concerning this hearing). To read Conyers letter to Blackwell <http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohblackwellltr12204.pdf>.

Blackwell is a partisan Republican who has made biased decisions that have resulted in voters being disenfranchised but he has backed down in the face of pressure before so please contact him today--it could effect Ohio official count and the fate of the presidency! There was an effort to have him recuse himself from being involved in the recount because Blackwell chaired the Ohio Bush campaign.

A. PLEASE USE THIS BLURB AS A TEMPLATE AND TRY TO CHANGE AND/OR ADD SOME OF YOUR OWN WORDS. THEN SEND TO EMAIL ADDRESS AND/OR CALL WITH INFO BELOW,

"Mr. Blackwell, you should answer questions from the House Judiciary Committee addressed you in a 14-page letter dated 12/2/04 (signed by 12 Democratic members of that committee). http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohblackwellfollowupltr12304.pdf The world has been watching Ohio. Do the right thing or bring shame to this country!"

"SEND TO : Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell
Email: blackwell@sos.state.oh.us 
Phone:  (614) 466-2585 (New)Fax: (614) 644-0649

C. You can contact the Ohio Governor at http://governor.ohio.gov/contactinfopage.asp phone: 1614 466-3555

D. To contact Media Click Here

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