Posted on 11/12/2004 9:45:31 AM PST by lilylangtree
From: "Peter Schurman, MoveOn.org" To: Subject: Investigate the Vote Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:04:45 -0800
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 signing this petition, and sharing 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 11, 2004
Footnotes:
1. Broward Machines Count Backward, Palm Beach Post, November 5, 2004
2. Glitch Gave Bush Extra Votes in Ohio, AP carried on CNN, November 5, 2004
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
Time for MoveON to Move on.
There is no outcome other than a Kerry win that these fools would ever believe. Nothing to see here.
Agreed.
They need to retool. MoveOn.Org Helping You Move On...to Canada, China, Cuba, France, and Spain.
>MoveOn.Org Helping You Move On...to Canada, China, Cuba, France, and Spain.
Ditto!
How dumb do you have to be? Dems' fraud will finally be uncovered by their own.
Gracious Losers, all.
Was the election conducted honestly? Of course it wasn't. Had it been conducted honestly, Michigan and Wisconsin would be red states!
The DNC must be burning outgoing mail servers telling their acolytes to please stop.
What a bunch of sore losers. I'm guessing the reason for their complaints are that they know they participated in voter fraud (dead people voting etc) and still can't figure out how W won:) I have a clue for them: the American public is sick of the lefty lies! The election is over!
Move on......... "GET OVER IT"
Why anyone give your hate group any credibility is beyond me. LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!
Trust me, Move-onnies, the LAST thing you want is for the voting process to have the undivided attention of an impartial, serious investigation...
here is the real poop on OHIO
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1274956/posts
97000 more votes than registered voters in Cuyahoga county.
I wonder if the stoned out memebership of MoveOn bothers to check their sources. Bush still won the county by over 100 votes, but did MoveOn mention this? No of course not.
"Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct."
"Bush actually received 365 votes in the precinct, Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, told The Columbus Dispatch."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/voting.problems.ap/index.html
Sorry, DEMS...the Old Play Book just won't work anymore!
If there were any gross misconduct at the polling sites,
the media would have those incidents all over the broadcasts.
The Secret Service needs to keep an eye on these loonies. They're going to create another liberal, marxist, Brooklyn educated, madman like
LEE HARVEY OSWALD...
Yet for just pennies a day, you can help us whip up socio-economic hatred and sectarian strife. Your contribution to MoveOn allows us to pick the scabs off every real or imagined wound, and further polarize this democracy. With your help, we can stifle the voice of the individual and forge anew the chains of social justice that keep everyone equally miserable.
Thank you."
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