{"article":{"id":120069,"heading":"Don't Certify the Votes: Go on record with your Senator","author":"Peter Johnson","created":"2004-12-07 15:34:49","modified":"2004-12-07 15:34:49","last_modified":"Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:34:49","article":"



Don't Certify the Votes: Go on record with your Senator



This list of 10 Senators are those which I hope to focus lobbying efforts to try and find at least one to protest the certification of the final vote tally in congress.

I've set-up the thread with a topic for each Senator, so we can keep track of any feedback from the Senators.

I've started a Thread at the forum on DU Here:

http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=201&topic_id=6829#6839<\/a>





1. Barbara Boxer CA

2. Ted Kennedy (MA)

3. Robert Byrd (WV)

4. Robert Graham (FL)

5. Joseph Biden (DE)

6. Patrick Leathy (VT)

7.Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)

8. Jim Jeffords (VT)

9.Russ Feingold (WI)

10. Richard J. Durbin (IL)



The main talking points are to:

1. Urge your Senator to not certify the official vote tally in Congress.

2. There needs to be more time allowed until all recounts are finished and fraud investigations are completed.

3. There is enough evidence to greatly suggest large scale voter fraud and voter disenfranchisement.



Add more talking points to this topic if you like and any thoughts on strategy.

I'd like to ask for volunteers to coordinate phone calls, faxes, emails, paper letters and any \"in person\" meetings you're willing to arrange.

It's vital that those and your own Senators get as many calls as possible so send this to all you know in each Senators' States. Post it at local Indymedias and any other state local net forums or lists.



I've started a Thread at the forum on DU Here:

http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=201&topic_id=6829#6839<\/a>



Peter Johnson

http:\/\/www.americanether.net<\/a>





Sample Letter

Dear Senator,

I am writing you now, so that I may give you my statement regarding what I believe was NOT a legitimate Presidential Election. As your constituent and you being my Representative in the Senate, I tell you now what my views are, which you should represent for me, on the US Senate Floor.



After the November 2nd General Election, reports of voter disenfranchisement and election fraud have been surfacing so much, that feel the results of the election should NOT be certified in Congress as accurate or legitimate.



You may have heard some reports as well, for instance the General Accounting Office has already begun an investigation into election irregularities and a recount will take place in Ohio and New Hampshire for sure and possibly states like New Mexico and Florida. There have been many news reports of voting machines switching to George Bush after John Kerry was actually chosen. Voting machine breakdowns and 5-10 hour lines in mostly Democratic ethnic minority areas. Stories of electronic voting machine technicians, posing as the FBI and locking down county vote tally areas and others suggesting wide scale fraud and illegal activity are surfacing from all over America more every day.

Up to now, the election irregularities have been scattered all across the country, with no one piece of evidence to CONVICT a particular group or political party of a full scale nationwide conspiracy, but there IS enough evidence to greatly SUSPECT just that.

If a hypodermic needle was found in the locker of a winner of an Olympic race, would you want to investigate for illegal drug use before or after giving him an Olympic Medal?



While the GAO investigation is being conducted and recounts in several states happening, I do not see the wisdom or rationale in certifying the official election results BEFORE both have been completed in full. The only way to add legitimacy to the 2004 election is to either corroborate the allegations of wide scale voter fraud and disenfranchisement or them prove false. Without this done, more and more people will lose confidence in the election process and may not even bother to vote next time.



Please make the right choice and DO NOT certify the votes until more time allowed for all the recounts and investigations to be completed.











1. Barbara Boxer

San Francisco

1700 Montgomery Street, Suite 240

San Francisco, CA 94111

(415) 403-0100

(415) 956-6701 fax



Washington D.C.

112 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510

(202) 224-3553







2. Robert Graham



Washington, DC

524 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

Phone 202-224-3041

Fax 202-224-2237

Tallahassee

2252 Killearn Center Boulevard, Suite 300

Tallahassee, Florida 32309

Phone 850-907-1100

TDD 850-894-2882

Fax 850-894-3222

Toll Free 866-418-9569

*



email:

http:\/\/graham.senate.gov\/email.html<\/a>







3. Edward Kennedy

http:\/\/kennedy.senate.gov\/index_low.html<\/a>

315 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

202\/224-4543

2400 JFK Building

Boston, MA 02203

617\/565-3170







4. Robert C. Byrd

311 Hart Building

Washington DC

202-224-3954

300 Virginia St. East, Suite 2630

Charleston, WV 2530

304-342-5855 phone

304-343-7144 Fax



email

http:\/\/byrd.senate.gov\/byrd_email.html<\/a>





5. Joseph Biden

Wilmington

1105 N. Market St.

Suite 2000

Wilmington, DE 19801-1233

Phone: 302-573-6345

Fax: 302-573-6351

201 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510

Phone: 202-224-5042

Fax: 202-224-0139

TDD: 202-224-5652

E-mail: Senator@Biden.Senate.gov<\/a>





6. Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)

The Honorable Barbara A. Mikulski

Suite 709

Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510

(202) 224-4654

Baltimore Office

Brown's Wharf

1629 Thames Street

Suite 400

Baltimore, Maryland 21231

410-962-4510 (phone)

410-962-4760 (fax)

410-962-4512 (TDD)





7. Jim Jeffords

Washington, D.C. Staff

413 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510

(202) 224-5141

Montpelier

453 Stone Cutters Way

Suite 1

Montpelier, VT 05602

(802) 223-5273

(800) 835-5500 (Only in Vermont)

Email:

http:\/\/jeffords.senate.gov\/contact-form.html<\/a>





8. Patrick Leathy

Washington office

433 Russell Senate Office Bldg

(at Constitution and Delaware)

United States Senate

Washington, DC 20510

(202) 224-4242

Burlington office

199 Main Street, 4th Floor

Burlington, VT 05401

(802) 863-2525

1-800-642-3193

senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov<\/a>



9. Russ Feingold

Middleton

1600 Aspen Commons

Middleton, WI 53562-4716

(608) 828-1200

TDD (608) 828-1215

Washington, DC

506 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510-4904

(202) 224-5323

TDD (202) 224-1280

Email:russ_feingold@feingold.senate.gov<\/a>

http:\/\/feingold.senate.gov\/contact.html<\/a>



10. Richard J. Durbin

Washington, DC

332 Dirksen Senate

Office Bldg.

Washington, DC 20510

(202) 224-2152

(202) 228-0400 - fax

Chicago

230 South Dearborn St.

Suite 3892

Chicago, IL 60604

(312) 353-4952

(312) 353-0150 - fax

Email:

http:\/\/durbin.senate.gov\/sitepages\/contact.cfm<\/a>







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