I have been asked by my Dem club President to send an email blast

asking about 2000 people to urge Barbara Boxer to stand with the reps insisting on an election investigation. I also want to add some info and links concerning the the whole election fraud issue. Since I can't do many of these blasts too often, I want to know what people think are the most important things to report and the best links for info -- I want to keep the message succinct -- otherwise people won't read it.

Here's one good link-

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121604Z.shtml

I think this is just about the best intro to the fraud issue for the uninitiated. It's the one I've chosen to e-mail to the people on my list.

http://mike-s.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/13/03753/597


20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA
by Angry Girl
Nightweed.com

Did you know....

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold

Diaries :: moon in the house of moe's diary ::

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886

5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.

http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26

http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx

http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.

http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm

http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.

http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm

http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm

http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm

12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as senior managers and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

13. Jeff Dean, Diebold's Senior Vice-President and senior programmer on Diebold's central compiler code, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.

http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.

http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.

http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie here <http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov>.)

http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html

http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm

http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html

http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=950

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html

20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.

http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm

http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html

http://uscountvotes.org/

here that faxes are considered stronger than emails. On Diane Feinstein's site she says that they tally the emails and pass on comments -- probably just some not all. But according to other DU posts here FAXES are stronger. The fax numbers are as follows for Boxer's offices and many of these are local:

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

Sacramento
501 I Street, Suite 7-600
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 448-2787
(916) 448-2563 fax

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

Los Angeles
312 N. Spring Street, Suite 1748
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 894-5000
(213) 894-5042 fax

Fresno
1130 O Street, Suite 2450
Fresno, CA 93721
(559) 497-5109
(559) 497-5111 fax

San Diego
600 B Street, Suite 2240
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 239-3884
(619) 239-5719 fax

Inland Empire
201 North E Street, Suite 210
San Bernardino, CA 92401
(909) 888-8525
(909) 888-8613 fax

www.contestthevote.org ?

They are working exclusively on Barbara Boxer.

the blast to urge them to contact Boxer.

Here are the current stories:

1 - 12/15 NYTimes: Lawmaker Seeks Inquiry Into Ohio Vote - asks the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a county prosecutor in Ohio today to explore "inappropriate and likely illegal election tampering".
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/politics/15ohio.html?adxnnl=1&oref=login&adxnnlx=1103129347-Sb0Nn2xF7zbMB5Qax04QDA

- Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed (TRIAD: Affidavit, Conyers letter, everything HERE)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121604Z.shtml

The most damming evidence (in the Affidavit linked above):
"He advised Lisa and I on how to post a "cheat sheet" on the wall so that only the board members and staff would know about it and what the codes meant so the count would come out perfect and we wouldn't have to do a full hand recount of the county. He left about 5:00 PM."

2 - Representative John Conyers held a second forum on the Ohio election questions Monday, December 13th, in Columbus, Ohio concerning new evidence of election irregularities and fraud in Ohio. The many participants include other Congressional Representatives, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and key lawyers and witnesses in on-going election lawsuits.

- 12/13 Conyers/Ohio hearing video file:
http://www.fugw.org/ohio

http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=opensource_movies&collectionid=election2004

Transcripts:
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/voteforum2.html

(more links below)

3 - COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Democrat John Kerry has formally requested that county elections officials allow his witnesses to visually inspect the 92,000 ballots cast in Ohio in which no vote for president was recorded. The request is one of 11 items that Kerry is asking for as part of the recount that Ohio's 88 county boards of election will begin this week, according to a letter sent to the election boards over the weekend.
http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=2682767

- The investigation involves enough votes "to possibly change the outcome," according to an interview of lawsuit participants, with Laura Flanders on Air America on Sunday. (The interview should be available online on Monday, December 13th.)

http://www.airamericaradio.com/shows/lauraflanders

- Entire text of letter:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/13/16140/513

4 - Legal actions:
– Alliance for Democracy Co-Chair Cliff Arnebeck filed a "Contest of Election" Lawsuit in Ohio Supreme Court early on Monday December 13th. Rep. Conyers sent a letter requesting injunctive relief of the Ohio electors - i.e., that they either step aside or vote provisionally pending the outcome of the case.
http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/

- Rep. Conyers et al.: Urgent request to Ohio Governor (et al.) to delay, or treat as provisional, choosing electors until recount is complete.
http://my.core.com/~dlrslr/ElectionResults2004/LetterFromCongress.pdf

- Challenge asks Ohio's top court to review vote: "The challengers who went to the Supreme Court question whether Bush won the key swing state by 119,000 votes, guaranteeing his victory over Democrat John Kerry."... "The challengers allege unlawful ballots were added to the total and legally cast ballots were altered. Without listing specific evidence, the complaint alleges 130,656 votes for Kerry and John Edwards in 36 counties were somehow switched to count for the Bush-Cheney ticket."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002118804_ohio14.html

Petition: http://joeorgren.com/MossvBush1.pdf

Injunction: http://joeorgren.com/MossvBush2.pdf

- Kerry-Edwards 2004, Greens, and Libertarians have added election tampering to a civil suit filed against the state of Ohio over problems with the state's recount.
http://rawstory.com/exclusives/kerry_ohio_suit_1215.php


Will you be among the media that gives these stories the coverage they deserve?


More links:

- Startling new revelations highlight rare Congressional hearings on Ohio vote
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/985

- 12/8 watch the Conyers Forum online (search "ALL RECENT PROGRAMS >>", then click on "House Forum on Ohio Election Voting Procedures":
http://www.c-span.org/

Or paste the direct link below into the Address window of your Internet browser:
rtsp://cspanrm.fplive.net/cspan/project/c04/c04120804_conyers.rm

- Judiciary Democratic Forum - Preserving Democracy - What Went Wrong in Ohio - December 8, 2004
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/voteforum.html

- From Selma to Ohio: A Report from the Conyers Hearing
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/120904W.shtml

- Rep. Conyers et al.: 34 Election-Related Questions for Kenneth Blackwell (Ohio Secretary of State) Submitted 12-2, still no response.
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohblackwellltr12204.pdf

- Conyers Follow-up Letter:
http://www.pdamerica.org/downloads/2004VotingIssues/ohblackwellrespfollowup121404.pdf

- Blackwell responds to Conyers and the GAO Letter!
http://www.pdamerica.org/downloads/2004VotingIssues/ohblackwellresp121404.pdf

- Link to over 100 under-reported election irregularities/potential fraud stories (11-2 to present):
http://www.independentmediasource.com/election_art_1128_1204.htm