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Investigate The Vote! (Moveon.org)

by Open-Publishing - Thursday 11 November 2004
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Elections-Elected USA

Dear MoveOn member,

Questions are swirling around whether the election was conducted honestly or not. We need to know — was it or wasn’t it?

If people were wrongly prevented from voting, or if legitimate votes were mis-counted or not counted at all, we need to know so the wrongdoers can be held accountable, and so we can prevent this from happening again.

Members of Congress are demanding an investigation to answer this question. The decision on whether or not there will be an investigation could come as soon as Monday. Join us in supporting the call for one now, at:


http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/

Then please invite your friends and colleagues to sign, as well. We need to show Congress that hundreds of thousands of Americans are serious about protecting the integrity of the vote.

We’re all hearing the stories and wondering what’s true and what isn’t. But at least two cases of serious problems are accepted beyond doubt:

* In Broward County, Florida, electronic voting machines counted backwards: as more people voted, the official vote count went down. [1]

* In one Columbus, Ohio suburb, election officials have acknowledged that electronic voting machines credited Bush with winning 4,258 votes, even though only 638 people voted there. [2]

These are just cases where we know something went wrong. There were also lots of reports of people being denied ballots on Election Day. So far, these reports remain anecdotal, but they must be compiled and examined. And the Internet is abuzz with theories about why the official counts were so different from the exit polls.

Do you have a story? Were you prevented from voting? Tell us, at:


http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/

Six prominent members of Congress have called for an investigation. Representatives Conyers (D-MI), Holt (D-NJ), Nadler (D-NY), Scott (D-VA), Watt (D-NC) and Wexler (D-FL), have demanded that the U.S. General Accounting Office:

immediately undertake an investigation of the efficacy of voting machines and new technologies used in the 2004 election, how election officials responded to difficulties they encountered, and what we can do in the future to improve our election systems and administration. [3]

We’ve got to support their call by asking our own Representatives and Senators to join them.

If you have a personal story of disenfranchisement, tell us. These members of Congress have agreed to include our stories and comments in their call for an investigation. Please sign now — we’ll deliver our compiled statements to them on Friday.

Even if you don’t have a personal story, your signature on our petition will still help build support for an investigation.

To keep our faith in democracy, we need to know the facts. Your signature, and your story if you have one, will help.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

— Carrie, Joan, Lee, Marika, Noah, Peter, Rosalyn, and Wes
The MoveOn.org Team
November 11th, 2004

Footnotes:

1. Broward Machines Count Backward, Palm Beach Post, November 5, 2004
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content...

2. Glitch Gave Bush Extra Votes in Ohio, AP carried on CNN, November 5, 2004
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/...

3. Letters from members of Congress to David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, demanding an investigation of the election: November 5th, 2004 & November 8th, 2004

http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats...f

Forum posts

  • Early in the Dem primary they had a moveon member primary, with dean winning and kucinich coming in a surprising second. Then after Dean and the other diversion democrats dropped out leaving Kerry, Edwards, Kucinich and Sharpton- many moveon members were asking for a 2nd primary- which kucinich probably would have won. But moveon refused, allowing the phony ’electability’ of kerry to continue dominate the media machine.

    If they had held a primary among their 1.5 million members and kucinich had won, this would have surely sent a wake-up call to the democrats believing themedia lies- but moveon refused. Methinks Soros was dangling his billions in front of them threatening to pull his funding.

    Notice the reason for their investigation now: "so the wrongdoers can be held accountable, and so we can prevent this from happening again. "

    It doesn’t appear that they are interested in removing the idiot dictator from power... just ’making sure this doesn’t happen again’. Great- after four more years of bush you think we’re going to have an honest election in 2008? what a joke.

    • It’s a rainy day here in what you folks would describe as one of the neanderthal, Red States, but I have to say that following the inane, silly and altogether hilarious opinions posted by left-wing conspiracy nuts and "It’s not possible that we the superior ones could have lost" types makes the hours just fly by. Please keep up the good work. I have every confidence that you will be successful in contributing to the defeat of yet another liberal in 2008. By the way, I do agree that a Kucinich candidacy would have been absolutely priceless. It would have been interesting to see how the media would have covered for a candidate who specifically supported socialism in the US.

      RightWriter
      Owensboro, Ky.

  • They can investigate all they want, but they’re not going to be able to find a way how the election was fixed for the repubs favor. We saw to that.

    • This country is a one party system and the proof is the democrats will never try to fix the election process or even investigate it because they are on the same big business military industrial complex payroll...otherwise known as bribes and kickbacks...and those of you who do not like it can leave it. We Republicans love it because we don’t give a shit about your sniveling issues about the gays not getting to marry or separation of church and state..this is a Christian country and if you don’t like it leave it....we are having our way with you whimpering jerks and you need a good fucking, you’ve been asking for it and now we are going to give it to you, you need to be kept in your place...you’ve been getting uppity again like the blacks who are on constant cry baby mode. This country is for and by white males all others need not speak up get over it.

  • You guys are real mental cases. Your own party has said that even though there were a couple of problems nation wide, they were rectified and that Kerry lost the election fair and square. Pull your head out of the place the sun don’t shine and get on with your lives. Try again when Hillary runs in about 4 years. You guys cry worse than infants. Maybe you should find a baby bottle and suck on it for the next four years.

  • A third grade education is all that is required to see beyond the smoke moveon.org is smoking. Moveon.org is a radical small group of far-far-far left socialistic activist like Mike Moore trying to turn America into a Euro Socialistic type Government. Most liberals won’t even have anything to do with them. Do remember that like the groups promoting gay marriage and trying to remove Christianity, they are small groups very much in the minority. Unfortunately for the majority, these small groups of minorities have activist judges and organizations such as the ACLU to over turn the will of the people or majority by forcing legal action in courts seated by activist judges who also turn their back on the law, the constitution and worse yet, the will of the people. It is your right and responsibility to educate yourself, your children and those you are close to about the dangers these disgruntled and radical Socialistic organizations are promoting. The threats these radical groups impose is vast and they disgrace America in the worst way by standing behind a document called the Constitution which protects their rights to slander and deceive the very county they live in. At the time the Constitution was written, these groups and their threats did not exist. What did exist were a responsible and hard working people that just wanted to pursue happiness, freedom and no Government interference or control of his or her lives. These people would have never even had a nightmare about the activities these anti-American Socialist groups are promoting today.

    • What a crock of shit...you must have not gone beyond the third grade...go back to church where you belong and leave the political discourse to the grown ups.

    • You have just demonstrated how much of a bigot you lefties really are. Thank you.

    • We won -get ovEr it youse sore leftY LOsers. 4 more yers. we need bush to fite terorrissts.

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