Don't Certify the Votes: Go on record with your Senator
by ethre
Mon Dec 6th, 2004 at 13:44:43 PST


Don't Certify the Votes: Go on record with your Senator
This list of 10 Senators are those which I hope to focus lobbying efforts to try and find at least one to protest the certification of the final vote tally in congress.

I've set-up the thread with a topic for each Senator,  so we can keep track of any feedback from the Senators.

I've started a Thread at the forum on DU Here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu...201&topic_id=68 29#6839


Barbara Boxer CA

Ted Kennedy (MA)

Robert Byrd (WV)

Robert Graham (FL)

Joseph Biden (DE)

Patrick Leathy (VT)

7.Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)
8. Jim Jeffords (VT)
9.Russ Feingold (WI)
10. Richard J. Durbin (IL)

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The main talking points are to:


Urge your Senator to not certify the official vote tally in Congress.

There needs to be more time allowed until all recounts are finished and fraud investigations are completed.

There is enough evidence to greatly suggest large scale voter fraud and voter disenfranchisement.

Add more talking points to this topic if you like and any thoughts on strategy.
I'd like to ask for volunteers to coordinate phone calls, faxes, emails, paper letters and any "in person" meetings you're willing to arrange.

It's vital that those and your own Senators get as many calls as possible so send this to all you know in each Senators' States. Post it at local Indymedias and any other state local net forums or lists.

Peter Johnson
http://www.americanether.net

Sample Letter

Dear Senator,
    I am writing you now,  so that I may give you my statement regarding what I believe was NOT a legitimate Presidential Election.  As your constituent and you being my Representative in the Senate, I tell you now what my views are, which you should represent for me,  on the US Senate Floor.

    After the November 2nd General Election, reports of voter disenfranchisement and election fraud have been surfacing so much, that feel the results of the election should NOT be certified in Congress as accurate or legitimate. 

   You may have heard some reports as well, for instance the General Accounting Office has already begun an investigation into election irregularities and a recount will take place in Ohio and New Hampshire for sure and  possibly states like New Mexico and Florida.  There have been many news reports of voting machines switching to George Bush after John Kerry was actually chosen. Voting machine breakdowns and 5-10 hour lines in mostly Democratic ethnic minority areas.  Stories of electronic voting machine technicians,  posing as the FBI and locking down county vote tally areas and others suggesting wide scale fraud and illegal activity are surfacing from all over America more every day.

Up to now, the election irregularities have been scattered all across the country, with no one piece of evidence to CONVICT a particular group or political party of a full scale nationwide conspiracy, but there IS enough evidence to greatly SUSPECT just that.

If a hypodermic needle was found in the locker of a winner of an Olympic race, would you want to investigate for illegal drug use before or after giving him an Olympic Medal?

While the GAO investigation is being conducted and recounts in several states happening, I do not see the wisdom or rationale in certifying the official election results BEFORE both have been completed in full. The only way to add legitimacy to the 2004 election is to either corroborate the allegations of wide scale voter fraud and disenfranchisement or them prove false. Without this done, more and more people will lose confidence in the election process and may not even bother to vote next time.

Please make the right choice and DO NOT certify the votes until more time is allowed for all the recounts and investigations to be completed.

1. Barbara Boxer

San Francisco
1700 Montgomery Street, Suite 240
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 403-0100
(415) 956-6701 fax

Washington D.C.
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-3553

2. Robert Graham

Washington, DC

524 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone 202-224-3041
Fax 202-224-2237

Tallahassee

2252 Killearn Center Boulevard, Suite 300
Tallahassee, Florida 32309
Phone 850-907-1100
TDD 850-894-2882
Fax 850-894-3222
Toll Free 866-418-9569

    *

email:
http://graham.senate.gov/email.html

3. Edward Kennedy
http://kennedy.senate.gov/index_low.html
315 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

202/224-4543

2400 JFK Building
Boston, MA 02203
617/565-3170

4. Robert C. Byrd
311 Hart Building
Washington DC
202-224-3954

300 Virginia St. East, Suite 2630
Charleston, WV 2530
304-342-5855 phone
304-343-7144 Fax

email
http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html

5. Joseph Biden

Wilmington
1105 N. Market St.
Suite 2000
Wilmington, DE 19801-1233

Phone: 302-573-6345
Fax: 302-573-6351

201 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Phone: 202-224-5042
Fax: 202-224-0139
TDD: 202-224-5652
E-mail: Senator@Biden.Senate.gov

6. Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)
The Honorable Barbara A. Mikulski
Suite 709
Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-4654

Baltimore Office
Brown's Wharf
1629 Thames Street
Suite 400
Baltimore, Maryland 21231
410-962-4510 (phone)
410-962-4760 (fax)
410-962-4512 (TDD)

7. Jim Jeffords

Washington, D.C. Staff

413 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-5141

Montpelier
453 Stone Cutters Way
Suite 1
Montpelier, VT 05602
(802) 223-5273
(800) 835-5500 (Only in Vermont)

Email:
http://jeffords.senate.gov/contact-form.html

8. Patrick Leathy
Washington office
433 Russell Senate Office Bldg
(at Constitution and Delaware)
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-4242

Burlington office
199 Main Street, 4th Floor
Burlington, VT 05401
(802) 863-2525
1-800-642-3193

senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov

9. Russ Feingold
Middleton
1600 Aspen Commons
Middleton, WI 53562-4716
(608) 828-1200
TDD (608) 828-1215
Washington, DC
506 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-4904
(202) 224-5323
TDD (202) 224-1280

Email:russ_feingold@feingold.senate.gov
http://feingold.senate.gov/contact.html

10. Richard J. Durbin

Washington, DC
332 Dirksen Senate
Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-2152
(202) 228-0400 - fax

Chicago
230 South Dearborn St.
Suite 3892
Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 353-4952
(312) 353-0150 - fax

Email:
http://durbin.senate.gov/sitepages/contact.cfm

Dear Senator,

As your constituent, I am asking you to represent the facts below on the US Senate Floor, specific to the 2004 General Election.

Confirmed reports of voter disenfranchisement surfaced resulting in charges filed against election officials and related investigations.  Please inform your peers that the results of the General Election should NOT be certified.

Prior to award, if a hypodermic needle was found in the locker of a winner of an Olympic race, would illegal drug use be investigated before or after giving an athlete an Olympic Medal?

http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/c...ce/letters.html
http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com

- GAO is investigating voting irregularities
- criminal charges have been filed against election officials
- voting machine companies are under investigation
- recounts are being done in multiple states
- FOIA requests remain unfulfilled for auditing of voting machine data

There is no rationale for certifying election results BEFORE these outcomes have been determined. The only acceptable option is to corroborate or prove false, the allegations of wide spread voter fraud and disenfranchisement.  We are doing our job, please persuade your peers to do theirs and support you in standing against further disenfranchisement and demise of our republic.

We need to be able to revote, but that is unlikely.  So, please make the choice that allows our Republic to stand, for it cannot without legitimate voting.  As your constituent I am asking you to uphold our Constitution for The People, by not certifying votes until sufficient time is allowed for all recounts, criminal charges and investigations to be completed.

Respectfully,

What happens if your senator is McCain - HA!
Do you think I should waste my time??

All representatives are sworn to uphold our Constitution.  All Senators should be contacted and their feet held to the fire.  However the 10 named in the initial post have been identified as taking action in some way.

What happens if your senator is McCain - HA!
Do you think I should waste my time??

1. Barbara Boxer CA
2. Ted Kennedy (MA)
3. Robert Byrd (WV)
4. Robert Graham (FL)
5. Joseph Biden (DE)
6. Patrick Leathy (VT)
7.Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)
8. Jim Jeffords (VT)
9.Russ Feingold (WI)
10. Richard J. Durbin (IL)

hmmmmmm..............

If Ohio is not reversed and the electors elect Bush, I have one more nomination, the junior Senator from Massachusetts.  Straw, please relay to your soruce.