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AmyCrat Donating Member (721 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 02:47 PM
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NEWS: 11/13 Why signing the Petition to Congress to investigate...
Why signing the Petition to Congress requesting an investigation into the Presidential Election of 2004 is vitally important
Rick Gagliano | November 13, 2004
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4306
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While the media overlooks the obvious - that six Congressmen have called for a GAO investigation into electronic voting, that Ralph Nader has initiated a recount in New Hampshire, that the Green and Libertarian candidates are pushing forward with plans for an Ohio recount, that Bev Harris at BlackBoxVoting.org has filed a massive Freedom of Information Act request - the petition, started less than a week ago and already having garnered the support of 35,000 signers, may be America’s best hope discovering just exactly what went wrong on November 2nd.

The recounts are well-intentioned, but they may fail. The GAO investigation may take months even to get started and there’s no guarantee that it will result in full blown Congressional hearings. The FOIA requests will provide information - actual data on voting, but has no prosecutorial power.

For those reasons and others, that is why I wrote the petition in the first place and directed it to the full Congress. The petition (included below) calls for a complete and sweeping investigation and doesn’t stop at just electronic voting, but asks Congress to examine what went on before the election as well...
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shelley806 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 02:51 PM
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1. Thanks again for the post Amycrat...What is this news, Bellacio..I've
read several articles/posts on it since he/she covered the B* bulge so effectively, and I know they think that the current administration of neo-cons is fascist, but where is it located? In Italy? where?
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 03:55 PM
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5. It does seem to be a European Website....I'd like more info about it
before I go signing this petition. :shrug:
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shelley806 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 06:40 PM
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6. The petition is USA; I signed the second day it was posted...
and my number was 10,539.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 07:30 PM
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9. Thanks...I'd checked out the petition and new it was American...it's the
website I was interested. Thanks, though. :hi:
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stepnw1f Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 02:56 PM
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2. Very Cool
Good Luck on this.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 02:59 PM
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3. 36252 Total Signatures thus far including Mine--Congress should
get off its duff and and do its business!!
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indigo11153 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 03:52 PM
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4. Thanks for this
Edited on Sat Nov-13-04 03:53 PM by indigo11153
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shelley806 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 06:42 PM
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7. Glad you posted the link here...very handy! eom
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TheNonPanderer Donating Member (31 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 07:00 PM
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8. kick
Kick
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