REVOTE ESSENTIAL IN OHIO
This is to bring to attention the occurrence of wide spread election fraud during the November, 2004 elections.
Active campaigns are underway nationwide to persuade U.S. Senators to challenge the flawed and fraudulent election results when they meet on January 6, 2005.
We need only one Senator to challenge the election results.
Investigations in Ohio have revealed a total and complete breakdown of the voting process that can only be explained by a systematic and willful intent by the election authorities in this state to disenfranchise the People and defraud the election process. There has been several instances of flagrant violation of Ohio election law, tampering of vote tabulation machines and discarded ballots.
The investigations have revealed that machines broke down, counted backwards, eliminated votes and registered votes for the wrong candidate. Nearly all voting machine "glitches" favored Bush, some giving him thousands of extra votes. Democratic and African-American neighborhoods experienced by far the longest lines on election day, the most vote spoilage, the most elimination of provisional ballots and the most victimization by precinct manipulation. Four hundred thousand callers phoned voter protection hotlines with complaints ranging from absentee ballots lost in the mail to outright voter intimidation and disenfranchisement. Partisan election officials with conflict of interest were actively involved in undermining voting rights of the people. There have been documented instances of illegal tampering of the vote counting machines before and after the election and before the recount could being in Ohio.
The U.S. House Minority Judiciary Committee has documented massive and flagrant violations of federal voting rights act in Ohio. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have questioned the elections' legitimacy in a series of rigorous and painstakingly detailed letters documenting the unprecedented extent and scope of vote suppression, violations of the federal voting rights act, and potential voting machine fraud in both the election and the Ohio recount.
Detailed information is available at http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats.
The electronic information from the voting machines has lost data integrity and is therefore invalid. A recount does not reflect accurately the will of the people hence necessitating a re-vote.
Similar problems have occurred in New Mexico, Nevada, Iowa, Florida and North Carolina.
The only way to find the truth about the will of the people is to have a statewide re-vote in these states.
Re-voting was conducted in Ukraine and it was fully supported by the U.S. administration and the same has to be done in all these states in the U.S. as well.
Further we state that the re-vote be conducted with a paper ballot to completely eliminate the possibility of electronic hacking and tampering. If voting electronically then a paper trail must be made mandatory. Further this re-vote should be directly supervised by the Carter Center for Peace or other International group respected for overseeing these elections that were formerly supervised by partisan politicians with conflict of interest.
The Supreme Court has no jurisdiction in choosing the winner of a flawed and fraudulent state election, according to the law of 1887. The Congress has no authority in choosing a winner in this case either according to the same law. The role of the Congress, according to this law, is to require a clean vote from each state, which the Congress certifies.
In light of the above facts we ask that on January 6, 2005, Congress mandate:
- A statewide re-vote starting January 15, 2005.
- Direct supervision of the re-vote by the Carter Center for Peace or other International group.
- Paper verification of all votes cast during the re-vote.
We endured the violation of Democracy in 2000 and in 2002 through voter suppression and the use of doctored voting machines. During these elections in November 2004, we participated in the Democratic process in droves through small contributions of our time and money. Since November 2, 2004 we been even more busy helping with investigations of voter fraud through more contributions of our time and money. We are appalled that our Democratic leadership has not shown any significant support to our efforts. Under the circumstances we see the elections being stolen from us once again.
It would be difficult and impossible for us to continue to support a party or candidates who will not aggressively fight to prevent our elections from being stolen.