Dear dKos Community,
I am on a mission. Between now and 6 Jan 2005 I will be a pest because that is about all I can do with the resources I have.
I will be polite, but persistent.
I am re-posting an earlier diary because I do not think it received the attention the issue requires.
Subsequent diaries will all begin with "O6012005" and will contain a variety of prods, news items, comments from others, pleas, and incitements to act to halt the failed and dangerous 2004 national election process and REVOTE.
Thank you.
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What you are about to read is amazing and precisely the type of gutsy, in your face attitude it takes if you are facing an adversity and have any hope of surviving. I have emailed the author of the Seattle Times story and requested he forward my comments to Mr Munro.
"Former Secretary of State Ralph Munro, a key supporter of Republican Dino Rossi ..... says it may be time to toss out all of the votes and do the election over. Munro, who oversaw the state's elections system for 20 years before retiring in 2000, said a new vote is probably the only way to restore voter confidence and get a clear winner."
"This thing could just degenerate and spiral downward," Munro said yesterday. "Whoever eventually becomes governor is going to have a very hard time governing, and we're going to go through four years of flopping around."
Link:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002122517_recount17m.html
Precisely, Mr Munro. And, what you suggest is what all our fellow citizens should be demanding on 6 Jan 2005: halt an invalid election process & REVOTE.
You ask why? Let me tell you.
And, hint, hint - I'm just one of thousands of voices who are already saying, and more importantly doing whatever it will take to make a re-vote happen, nation-wide, in early 2005, for President and Vice President of the United States of America.
What motivated all of us American patriots to defend our franchise, our Constitution?
Well, Mr Munro, many of us have spent considerable time since the failed national election of 2000 learning what really happened.
And, what we've learned is spectacularly well summarized by a fellow patriot, Shanikka, in a message she shared with many of us earlier this week. The message was titled "Folks Don't Get It."
I urge you to read it, and, as you can see below, I've included a reference to it in a letter I'm asking you, and all those whom you know, to send to our Congressional representatives.
Mr Munro we `have no election'; our `more perfect union' is close to annihilation; the issue is not Kerry or Bush, the issue is no reasonable citizen has any basis in knowledge, in fact, in reality to accept the current national election process.
We have seen our fellow citizens disenfranchised; we have used voting devices that provide zero verification to the citizen that their vote is counted as they intended.
We have no election, Mr Munro.
We have no election Senator Kerry.
We have no election Mr Bush.
WE HAVE NO ELECTION MY FELLOW CITIZENS.
So, Mr Munro (and anyone else who happens to read this), I'm asking you to join us in our effort to save our American franchise of democracy. I'm asking you to copy sign and send the following letter to every member of the 109th US Congress and fax it to their local offices not just to their DC office:
Dear __,
Having reflected, all day, on the exceptional dKos Diary "Folks Don't Get It" by shanikka, my resolve to see the 'national election of 2004' halted on 6 Jan 2005 transformed to "do or die."
You should read what she had to say and what it elicited from others:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/15/9734/4841
I have sent the following message to several colleagues and want to share it with you so you can know what to expect and why we are corresponding with you now.
We are requesting that millions of our fellow citizens be in DC on 6 Jan 2005.
We will join, together on that day, with you and all responsible members of the HR and the Senate and together we will halt the fraudulent national election of 2004.
We will halt demonstrate, together, in the largest ever display of unity in support of our Constitution.
We will conclusively assert that "we the people" will not tolerate anything but a HALT to the farce, the brutal, systematic attack on our fellow citizens in their effort to "form a more perfect union" -- to vote and know their vote was recorded as they intended.
Together, we will forge a remedy to the situation that provides to each of our fellow citizens who are eligible to vote an equitable access to do just that -- vote. We will ensure that each voter has a mechanism to ensure that their vote is counted exactly as they intend it to be.
We will save our American franchise of democracy.
We will then vote, together, for the 44th President and Vice President of the USA and we will all know, beyond reasonable doubt, that whomever receives the most votes is the elected representative of our Nation.
We will bring joy and hope to all of humanity because of our actions between now and 6 Jan 2005, and every day thereafter.
We will never forget the peril to our Constitution, our freedom that we confronted together and resolved -- we will have lived and sacrificed in the honor of all whose ideals and sacrifices have graced each of us and for whom we now must prove our gratitude.
We will prevail.
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"I'm an American patriot, not a pro-fraud theocrat" -- and, you betcha I approve of this message and will die making it stick, if that is what must happen.