A Petition To Congress for investigation of voting verification

Forgive me if this was posted elsewhere:

I just recieved this and thought you would like to see it. It is a very easy way to be heard. They will post your name and address so I suggest you only give them your city and state. So far, almost 20,000 people have signed.

This is a partial text of an email I received:
After a week of increasingly substantiated reports of machine
problems and other voter difficulties--whether accidental or
fraudulent, I have been writing to all my elected representatives to ask them for a full, fair and accurate count of the votes in last week's presidential election. Even if there is no possibility of such vote counting changing anything, the reason we vote is to elect our government and if we can't rely with confidence on those votes being
counted accurately, there's not much democracy left. Today I received an email with a petition to sign to demand our government do exactly
that--count all the votes! Please sign this petition to Congress to
investigate the recent
problems during the election process and get an accurate vote count.
Just paste the web address into your browser:
http://www.petitiononline.com/uselect/petition.html Please sign the
online petition ASAP and pass this email on to your friends and family
(even Republicans should want a full and accurate vote count).



This is the text of the petition:


To: United States Congress
TO: All members of the Congress of the United States of America; all Senators and Members of the House of Representatives

A Petition to immediately and without delay open a joint investigation into potential wrongdoing in the Presidential Election of 2004, specifically to investigate the potential of voting machine manipulation or purposeful malfunction, especially electronic voting machines manufactured and supplied by Diebold, Inc.; Electronic Systems & Software (ES & S); Sequoia Voting Systems, and others, and also to identify and investigate all allegations of improper conduct by election officials, workers, observers, challengers and operatives and employees of both major parties concerning the voting process including intimidation, dissemination of improper information, manipulation of registration records, improper handling of actual voting ballots and, in general, any and all potential improprieties which could have led to improper or inaccurate election results.

Such inquiries should not be limited to any particular state, precinct or district but strive to examine the voting process in any and all areas in which there is even the slightest indication of impropriety, but especially in the states of Florida, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Nevada, New Mexico, Iowa, Arkansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas and New Hampshire, and not limit such investigation, and expand such investigations to cover Senatorial races as well, especially those in Kentucky, Florida and South Dakota.

We, the undersigned, request that our elected representatives act in accordance with the Constitution of the United States of America in a legal, impartial and expedient manner for an open hearing before the people of the United States and if such wrongdoing, illegal practices, manipulation of voting records or processes is of such a nature to indicate egregious or extensive tampering, alteration or misappropriation of the voting process that the violators be brought to justice and remedies, potentially including a nationwide audit, recall, recount or new election be imposed by your bodies.

We feel it is our patriotic duty to request such action from you, our elected officials, and your duty to respond in a responsible manner.

Sincerely,