I am compelled to persist because a number of Kossacks have encouraged me to do so and because it is my responsibility as a citizen to encourage an accounting, now, of the National Election of 2004.
Here is the basic letter I have been sending to numerous leaders and organizations:
Good morning/evening ......,
I agonize over the crippled state of our Democracy. I am but a lone citizen without stature or wealth. I am educated and I am aware and I see our Democracy on the verge of collapse.
I have posted on various blogs and written numerous leaders, today, requesting that they issue a Nation-wide call to action.
It is inherently non-partisan, simple, and obvious.
As Alan Waldman, in the Orlando Weekly, today, reminded all of us today:
"Election results are not final until electors vote on Dec. 12. There is still time to find the truth."
http://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/Story.asp?ID=4688
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I am advocating a National Campaign: "Prove My Vote Counts"
Simple message:
American citizen, do you know if your vote was counted as you intended it to be.
American citizen, do you know that 30 % of you used a technology that has no verifiable record of how you intended to vote.
American citizen, would you put your money in a bank or use a credit card that didn't verify, penny by penny, the status of your account.
American citizen, pick up the phone and call your friends, your Congress representatives, your newspapers, your TV/radio stations, your President and ask `Prove to me my vote was counted the way I intended it to be; Just Prove it.'
xxxxxx, will you help mobilize all responsible leaders and organizations to call for a "Prove My Vote Counts" Campaign.
Will you encourage all those with skill and zeal and dedication to our Democracy to create ads, with appropriate imagery, and get them on the net.
Will you encourage those who have the infrastructure to raise funds to do so with urgency so we can get the ads shown during 'prime time' and 'early morning radio'?
Would you be willing to contact Oprah and Larry King and Olbermann and others in the broadcast media and request that they take 5 min during their program and ask those questions just once?
We a get the vote counted, verifiably, now.
We can, if we want to.
This Is Our Nation. Today that Nation is in crisis. Please call the Nation to action.
Thank you.
"It's about America" - the one on life support and in need of immediate, heroic, sustained treatment.
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Dear Kossack Community,
I do not post here as some `vanity' stunt. The only reason why I care about your hitting the `recommend' button is that it means more members of the community will see my plea before the Diary scrolls into the dKos bit heaven.
What I really care about is that you are send this call for action to everyone you know.
If you have the talent to do animations or drawings or other forms of communication that can elicit awareness and support for `Prove My Vote Counts' please do it.
If you have organizational skills or financial resources, please find ways to build a grassroots effort in every State so that as many citizens as possible have the opportunity to learn of this crisis in our franchise and demand `Prove My Vote Counts.'
Can we come together and do this for each other?
If we do, we will demonstrate to the world that we are holding our system accountable. We will show the world that in a true Democracy the citizens are the government. And, if we do this now we will take specific steps towards ensuring that in 2006 and 2008 and beyond that our franchise of Democracy is sound and representative of The People.
Please dig deep, please do not avoid the issue, please shout from the roof tops `Prove My Vote Counts.' Let us have the largest 'civics lesson and field trip' in American history; let's 'get out the count' [GOTC]!
Let us prove to each other and to the world that the We The People know that in a Democracy the ultimate responsibility for what our more perfect union does is OURS
And, that at the most basic level, our responsibility is to account for every vote before we declare any citizen to be elected.
Thank you.