Wednesday, January 05, 2005

''Seven key reasons why the vote must be challenged at the electoral college''

One more day until Congress looks in the mirror:1. Exit Polls Did Not Match Actual Vote in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida2. Voting machines owned by private, partisan companies subject to manipulation3. Uncounted and Provisional Ballots disproportionately affected African American voters4. Inexplicable Vote disparities5. Voting Rights Act Violations6. The Recount did not Recount the Votes7. Challenge at January 6 Joint Session of Congress--"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. We need national standards for voting, an end to partisan control of the election process by state officials, accompanied by a constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to vote for all Americans." Jesse Jackson provides the details. These photos from the rally in Columbus yesterday provide the pictures. Update: If you're still undecided: "The "Crime of November 2": The human side of how Bush stole Ohio, and why Congress must investigate rather than ratify the Electoral College."-from the Columbus Free Press today: "It's also ironic that an apparently defeated Republican candidate for governor in the state of Washington is now calling for a revote to overturn a recount. We support that demand, and ask the same for Ohio. In breaking news, the freepress.org team now has in its possession an official Franklin County Board of Election document entitled "Machine Assignments for General Election 2004" showing the serial numbers of 76 machines, all in Democrat-rich Columbus, that were blacked out and kept in the warehouse or on trucks during the election, while thousands of inner city voters stood in the rain. Conversely, none of the machines designated for Republican-dominated suburbs were blacked out on the list and held back. Those and other crucial discrepancies will be discussed today at a 2pm (11am, PST) press conference at the National Press Club in Washington. We have been told the conference will be covered by C-SPAN. We will catalog as much of the evidence presented there as possible in future articles, and in an upcoming book and documentary film." While the nature of the irregularities here in Washington state are vastly different than those in Ohio, tell Rove I would accept a revote here if we have one there.

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