Election 2004 - Funding the Recount
 

from:
http://www.democraticunderground.com...ss=104x2665024


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Dear Friends,

As you know, anomalies in electronic voting precincts across the nation last week have raised alarming questions about the integrity of our voting process. The only way we will know if there was vote tampering is to demand recounts in every state possible. While recounts might not overturn the result, they are absolutely necessary in order to preserve our democracy.

John Kerry has not responded to pleas that he demand recounts. Ralph Nader has. At the request of voting rights activists Nader has already asked for a recount in New Hampshire (NH's first because NH's deadline is the earliest). Citizens in Ohio are organizing to demand recounts in that state, as they are able to do so under Ohio law. The plan is to request recounts in every state. This is our only chance to audit the voting system.

All of this costs money in terms of filing fees and other costs. A new organization has been formed specifically to fund the recounts. You can donate online at:

http://www.helpamericarecount.org /

Or mail a check made out to Help America Recount to:

Help America Recount c/o
LAW OFFICES OF LOWELL FINLEY
1604 SOLANO AVENUE BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94707-2109

Last chance for democracy. Gotta audit. Please help if you can.


~S


p.s. I've attached some links in case you're interested in learning more.


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http://www.helpamericarecount.org /

WEDNESDAY NOV 10, Washington D.C. -- Consumer groups rallying citizens for recounts in Ohio, Florida; voters can fund audits of Ohio and court challenges in Florida by donating to HelpAmericaRecount.org, a 527 tax exempt organization set up exclusively for recount funding.

Getting out the vote is good, but getting a 123 percent turnout is too good to be true. This happened in Fairview Park, Ohio. In Broward County, Florida, voting machines can do the moon walk: They count back-wards, but only on certain ballot measures.

If you want to buy a recount in Ohio you don't need to live there...you do need to be a US citizen and you need to get out your check book. How much is Democracy worth to you...starting next week no one can stop us from auditing Ohio were gonna get em.

In New Hampshire, voting trends seemed to depend more on which voting machine was used than on what party voters were affiliated with. When asked to produce ?zero reports? at poll opening, some Florida touch-screen machines reported votes were already in the system, apparent stuffing of the electronic ballot box. Gahanna, Ohio had thousands more votes show up than voters.

Accounting for provisional ballots has been murky, and anomalies have now surfaced in Cuyahoga County, Perry County, and Youngstown Ohio. Florida optical scan machines in 40 counties had statistically improbable results, which did not exist in Florida touch-screens. Technicians got inside access to a central tabulator in Collier County during the middle of the election, and modem security settings may have been disabled for Diebold machines.

As hundreds of anomalies pop up, citizens are thinking:

Who really won? Dont know. Gotta audit!

Click Here to Donate! - http://www.helpamericarecount.org/contribute.html

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no link for this note from John Kerry's brother - this is from email, but it has been verified and is legit > > >
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I am grateful to the many people who have contacted me to express their deep concern about questions of miscounting, fraud, vote suppression, and other problems on election day, especially in Florida and Ohio. Their concern reflects how much people care about the outcome of this election. I want to you to know we are not ignoring it. Election protection lawyers are still on the job in Ohio and Florida and in DC making sure all the votes are counted accurately. I have been conferring with lawyers involved and have made them aware of the information and concerns people have given me. Even if the facts don't provide a basis to change the outcome, the information will inform the continuing effort to protect the integrity of our elections.

If you have specific factual information about voting problems that could be helpful to the lawyers doing their job, please send it to [email protected] rather than to me.

The election protection effort has been important to me personally, and I am proud of the 17,000 lawyers around the country who helped. It's obvious that we have a way to go still, but their efforts helped make a difference. Their work goes on.

Thank you,

Cam Kerry

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well, if you were dumb enough to contribute to kerry, you'll be dumb enough to line this clown's pockets too.:1orglaugh

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