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Election Fraud Evidence Mounting
 

Hard evidence is mounting of errors in electronic voting booth tallies.

Do we want the same thing to happen in the next election?


Call your Senators, House Rep, and the White House!
Click here to get the phone numbers. It’s only a democracy if YOU call!

 
Sample errors
 
In some counties -- all using electronic machines -- more votes for President were recorded than there were actual voters in the counties. In several Florida counties, over 80% of registered voters are Democrats, but Diebold machines said up to 74% of the county voted for Bush. In Ohio's Mahoning and Mercer Counties, the electronic machines had to be re-set, and at one point showed votes of "negative 25 million," according to the head of the local board of elections. Some errors favored Kerry as well.

Watch this astounding movie from early 2004 researching the electronic voting booths, including a demo of how to change vote tallies.
 
Pending Legislation
 
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
This heavy-hitting group is focusing on getting legislators to do something about the fraud. They've been lobbying to do something about this for a year BEFORE the election. Now they're geared up to bring attention to it.
http://indyvoter.org
Ohio calls a town hall meeting about it.
 
Comprehensive lists of
Nov. 2 voter issues
 
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.votersunite.org
http://stolenelection2004.com
http://ustogether.org
https://voteprotect.org
 
Petitions you can sign
and actions you can take
 
http://www.moveon.org
http://www.petitiononline.com
http://www.eff.org
http://actionspeaksportland.org/
 
 
Commentary
 
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.thehill.com
http://www.iht.com
http://www.gregpalast.com
http://www.buzzflash.com
 
A Bit of Humor
 
http://www.collegehumor.com/
 
A cell phone photo of a voting machine
 

Want to know what this image is? It's a picture I took with my cellphone-camera of an electronic voting machine screen. I took it today when I went down to vote for the next President of the Unites States in Santa Clara California. The screen says "Vote Save Error #9. Use the Backup Voting Procedure." A news crew was on hand to film Californians using the voting machines. I pointed to this particular screen and said "There's your story - right there. I just took a picture of the screen and plan to share it with 6.4 billion of my closest friends on the Internet tonight. I suggest you do the same." To my astonishment, the cameraman did shoot some footage of the screen, though I don't know what was shown later on television.

Now that I've told you the story behind the picture, I need not mention the maelstrom of thoughts that go through my head whenever I look at it - the picture is testament enough. The next revolution will not be televised. The next revolution will be blogged.

This says it all.

Posted somehwere by David.
 
 
 
What You Can Do :

The hilarious and brilliant yourcongress.com has every resource we wish we could have on this website but don't have the resources to implement.

You can:
*Learn how Congress works.
*Find out what they're voting on this week.
*Send faxes and emails.
*Track how they voted.

So, go there!

This website has several wonderful features:
*Action alerts.  They’ll tell you what votes are coming up in Congress and give you a link to instantly let you contact your reps via email.
*Media blitzes. Moveon.org raises money for tv commercials and short videos to reach citizens who don’t have internet access.
 
The website from Ben Cohen from Ben & Jerry’s ice cream:
*Action alerts. They’ll send you an email before Congressional votes with a link that will instantly fax your reps.
*The ComputerAte My Vote is mobilizing people to stop electronic voting booths that don’t have a paper trail. It’s not a democracy if your vote is hacked.
 
Sends alerts on Congressional votes about environmental issues.
 
RESOURCES:
 
Elections aren't decided by the voters, they're decided by the people who count the votes.

We have a great list of resources tracking the problems with electronic voting booths.

 
Project Vote Smart covers your candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings.
 

*VoterPunch.org keeps track of how your reps vote on progressive issues.

*Dieoff.org discusses the timeline for oil extraction – we’re going to run out of petroleum sooner than you think, and unless we plan for it now we’re heading for a new dark ages.

*Motherjones.com. This magazine of investigative journalism publishes stories I’ve never read anywhere else. They explained why we’d be going to war in Iraq...in 2000. A must-read.