Action alert: Demand a timely recount in Ohio

--Please Forward To Those Interested In Counting Every Vote and
Possibly
Rreversing the Coup"--

We should all strive to make sure that the Ohio recount is a success
since the recount will definitely happen and it has the ability to
"reverse the coup" if enough legal votes are found for Kerry.

Breaking news: Right now the Ohio Recount will NOT have enough time for
a manual recount to be completed before the electors choose the new
president! Since a judge has just refused to expedite the start of the
recount in Ohio, we must pressured Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell to
expedite the recount, and enlist the help of the Ohio Governor and the
press as well!

Below the sample letter to Blackwell is the contact info for Blackwell,
the Ohio governor, and the Ohio media. This information below is
listed
on this website which also includes other urgent updated actions (check
frequently) to facilitate recounts and investigate fraud -- including
how to volunteer to observe the recount in Ohio for the Democrats (who
are joining the recount) or the Greens (both are recruiting thousands
and welcome people from other states).
http://www.stolenelection2004.com/alerts.html


(A) PLEASE USE THIS BLURB AS A TEMPLATE AND TRY TO CHANGE AND/OR ADD
SOME OF YOUR OWN WORDS. THEN SEND TO EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW,

"In order for there to be no doubt in people's minds that the results
of
the election were accurate, the beginning of the recount must expedited
so that a manual count of the entire state (which is estimated to take
10 days) can be finished by the time the electors meet to choose a
president on Dec. 13th. This is the only way that all the overvotes,
undervotes, and problems with machines can be checked. Since many
anomalies have been discovered in the Ohio election a thorough manual
recount is the only way that the world will trust the election results.

In addition, it would be best if you, as Chair of the Bush Campaign in
Ohio, recused yourself from being the tie breaker in disputes between
Republic and Democratic counters of provisional ballots and recuse
yourself from being involved in the Ohio recount. Someone non-partisan
should take this role instead. If you do not recuse yourself, and if it
seems that people were disenfranchised because of your bias, the
results
of this election will not seem settled or fair which will cause
distress
in this country and the whole world. As a result I implore you not to
disenfranchise voters based on technicalities!"

SEND TO : Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell Email:
blackwell@sos.state.oh.us
<http://us.f119.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=blackwell@sos.state.oh.us>
Phone:1-877-767-6446 toll free or (614) 466-2585 and ask to be
transferred to where you can make comment on elections

(B) If you want to do more about this issue you can also contact Ohio
media about the need to expedite the beginning of recount and for
Blackwell to recuse himself from both the counting of the provisional
ballots and the recount
<http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/?command=state_search&sta
te=oh>

and also spread the word in any media outlet that you can!

(C) and you can contact the Ohio Governor at
<http://governor.ohio.gov/contactinfopage.asp> to pressure Blackwell.
about expediting the start of the recount and urging that he recuse
himself from both the counting of the provisional ballots and the
recount

(D)For more urgent updated actions to facilitate recounts and
investigate fraud -- including how to volunteer to observe the recount
for the Democrats or the Greens, see
http://www.stolenelection2004.com/alerts.html


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11/25/04

Kenneth Blackwell, you have outdone Katherine Harris in your deplorably
partisan behavior, and will go down in history as having put up
roadblocks to "helping America vote" at every conceivable point:

. Vigorously attempting to install non-recountable,
non-transparent e-voting technology state-wide, provided by an
obviously
partisan and highly litigated vendor, Diebold Election Systems.
. Distributing voter-registration forms which fail to notify
voters about required data (date of birth), resulting in large numbers
of rejected voter registrations.
. Distributing voter-registration forms which did not have a
return address, thus making it more difficult for new voters to
register.
. Requiring that voters register to vote on a card with specific
card thickness(80#)
. Requiring that voters vote in their "correct" precinct, despite
the fact that this was not enforced in the previous election, and
resulting in an untold number of provisional-ballot rejections (2,135
in
Cuyahoga County alone, many of whom waited in long lines expecting
their vote would be counted.)
. Keeping the provisional-ballot procedures vague, changing
requirements up until the last minute, causing great frustration among
Board of Elections directors, and prompting them to hold regional
meetings to compare notes, exchange information and demand
HAVA-allocated funds.
. Failing to provide necessary resources for voter-education,
despite numerous requests and an obvious need, before and during the
election.
. Withholding HAVA money to help election boards recruit and train
poll workers, especially needed given the confusing provisional-ballot
procedures and eligibility rules.
. Withholding HAVA money to help election boards maintain accurate
records of registered voters in voter-registration databases. (An
unacceptable amount of un-entered or mis-entered voting registration
forms was discovered in Cuyahoga County)
. Changing the rules to permit a Republican challenger (and
Democratic challenger) in each precinct (previously associated with the
polling place), knowing full well that Republican challengers would
intimidate and disenfranchise voters.
. Failing to require that voter purging rules be implemented
consistently and equitably across the state.
. Failure to require transparency and checks and balance
mechanisms such as precinct-level posting of votes, transparent
procedures for observation of provisional-ballot verification, and
timely accessibility to public information.
. Permitting election boards to allocate voting equipment
disproportionately among precincts (and not based on voter-registration
totals), and failing to require a streamlined procedure to redistribute
voting machines on election day. Permitting the widespread deployment
of non-working voting equipment at the beginning of election day.
Excessively long lines were experienced throughout the state, up to 10
hours in some precincts, undoubtedly resulting in voters leaving
without
voting, and placing unnecessary strain on elderly and those in poor
health.
. Creating a new "Election Inspector" role (a single person, not a
balanced "D"/"R" pair). Lack of administrative procedures, training
procedures and checks and balances to ensure nonpartisanship, resulted
in numerous cases of harassment of election monitors and Democratic
challengers who were earnestly trying to help voters vote. These
"inspectors" effectively prevented many voters from voting in their
correct precinct, and thus prevented those voters' votes from being
counted.
. Changing the rules to reject provisional ballots when date of
birth was not written on the provisional-ballot envelope, even if the
data of birth was found within the voter-registration database.
. Implementing an illegal information lockdown on all counties,
preventing the public from seeing the actual poll books until county
election results are certified.
. Claiming on the SOS website that a recount must be done on only
3% of the votes.
. Intentionally delaying the Ohio certification date from Dec 1st
to Dec 6th to prevent ample time to conduct a meaningful recount.
(Likely encouraging county election boards to delay their county's
certification. (Cuyahoga County, for example, has delayed its
certification for at least a week: from 11/22/04 to 11/29/04.)
. Fighting to prevent the initiation of recount until the state
certifies its results on Dec 6th.
. Announcing that Ohio's election day went "smoothly", despite the
myriad of problems experienced in countless mostly-Democratic precincts
across the state.
. Failing to recuse yourself from your job as Secretary of State,
even though you are state chairman of Bush/Cheney campaign and clearly
partisan.


These are just "off the top of my head."


An outraged citizen of Ohio!
Victoria Lovegren, Ph.D.
CWRU