Here's a bit of a re-write of the sample letter, incorporating the suggestions in this forum, smoothing out the wording a bit, and adding two items to the reference list (chuckherrin.com, and flcv.com).
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Dear (Democratic Senator):
I urge you to vote "No!" on Alberto Gonzales and to block this nomination with a filibuster.
(or)
I applaud your speech in the Senate against the Alberto Gonzales nomination, and I urge you to block this nomination with a filibuster.
(continued)
We don't need a man who approves of torture for head of domestic law enforcement. Like the Condoleeza Rice nomination, the Gonzales nomination is an insult to you and to the American people, nearly 60% of whom oppose the Iraq war, 63% of whom oppose torture with no exceptions, and whose approval rating of Bush has sunk to 43% (Rasmussen) or is hovering at or below 50% (according to others)—an unprecedented "vote of no confidence" in a recently inaugurated president.
And I urge you to ask yourself why these arrogant nominations have been presented to you, and to us. How is it that mass murder and torture and blatant lying have become qualifications for the highest appointed offices in our land? Why is it that Bush has so little regard for public opinion? Why does the Bush regime behave as if it is not accountable to the electorate?
The answer is to be found in a slew of expert reports at over a dozen leading universities that cast serious doubt upon the 2004 presidential election result, and call for a full investigation.
On January 29, 2005, nine Ph.D.'s and other experts issued a report that calculates the odds against a Bush win at 1 in 10 million, based on an examination of the Exit Polls. They find that Kerry won the exit polls (by a 3% margin). They find a large, unexplained skew toward Bush at the precinct level in electronic voting vs. paper ballot (a skew that has been confirmed by other reports--see the U.C. Berkeley/Florida, and democraticunderground.com/North Carolina reports, below).
This report also finds the explanation by Edison/Mitofsky (the exit pollsters) for why Kerry won the exit polls--that Republicans were shy of the pollsters--to be without foundation. In fact, the data points to the opposite conclusion--that the exit polls actually favored Bush--which makes the unexplained discrepancy between the exit polls and the official results even larger. The report calls for a full investigation of the 2004 election--the latest in a growing list of expert reports that do so. See:
http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/USCountVotes_Re_Mitofsky-Edison.pdfThis report comes after many other investigations and reports (see below), all of which point to the same thing: Stolen Election II, this time by electronic means.
In another study that has circulated in draft form on the Internet, and is to be published as a book in May, Dr. Steven Freeman provides an astute analysis of the predictable vote for John Kerry, using the base vote going in (who voted in 2000), the big switch from Nader to Kerry in 2004, and new voter registration, which favored Democrats by 57% to 41%. Adding these three groups of voters together, Dr. Freeman finds a discrepancy of over 4 million votes (and possibly as high as 8 million) that Kerry should have gotten and didn't, in the official results.
The answer to why Bush is so oblivious to public opinion is to be found in our fraudulent election system. With Wally O'Dell and H. Ahmanson counting our votes, in secret, behind their "Wizard of Oz" proprietary source code curtain, our country is becoming a fascist state that operates in the interests of war profiteers, and the rich and powerful—and majority opinion no longer matters.
The solution to this dilemma—of a minority party acting as if it had a majority, based on invalid elections--is for the majority party, the Democrats, to fight back: to resist these terrible appointments, to oppose the radical agenda of this regime on every important issue, to investigate the 2004 election, and to strongly support election reform.
The best solution as to election reform is paper ballots and hand counts. We were a pretty good country when we had those. We can be a good country again.
Some think the electronic voting system can be repaired—and I support valid efforts to do so, including the Ensign Bill, which will at the least provide us with a proper, countable ballot. But much more is needed, including removal of Republican partisans as owners of the secret programming code that counts all our votes, open source code, proper security and auditing procedures, and undoctored exit polls to verify the election. (Our exit polls were doctored on election night—"adjusted" to fit the official result-- hiding the fact that Kerry won the exit polls—a prime indicator of fraud).
I think we've gone too far toward an inherently fraudulent election system, and need to pull way back to something simpler that occurs at human speed, and that human eyes can see.
Thousands of activists around the country observed the debate and vote on Condoleeza Rice and the current debate on Alberto Gonzales, looking to see who provides a strong, progressive opposition to the Bush regime. We noted the deeds of the "Heroic 13" on the Rice nomination, and are also noting who supports the rule of law on the torture of prisoners, and who does not, on the Gonzales nomination.
The activists at democraticundergound.com stand ready to assist any politician who courageously opposes the Bush regime, and who is willing to investigate the 2004 election and support election reform.
And remember: We—the good people of the United States, the people who believe in fairness and justice and good government, and who oppose unjustified war--are the majority!
Sincerely,
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P.S. Enclosure: Here are some of the expert reports on the 2004 election that you should be familiar with.
Exit poll analysis: astronomical odds against Bush win
Dr. Steven Freeman:
http://www.appliedresearch.us/sf/epdiscrep.htmDr. Ron Baiman:
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/997Dr. Webb Mealy:
http://www.selftest.net/redshift.htmJonathan Simon:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00142.htm(9 Ph.D's from leading universities call for investigation of 2004 Election:)
http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/USCountVotes_Re_Mitofsky-Edison.pdf(Florida: 130,000 to 230,000 phantom votes for Bush--paper vs. electronic voting:)
Dr. Michael Haut & UC Berkeley stats team:
http://ucdata.berkeley.eduJohns Hopkins report on insecurity of electronic voting (general):
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00196.htm#5Easy demo of the insecurity of electronic voting machines:
http://www.chuckherrin.com/hackthevote.htmOhio vote suppression:
http://www.bpac.infoDocumentation of widespread machine fraud and dirty tricks in over 20 states:
http://www.flcv.com/ussumall.htmlDemocratic Underground (ignatzmouse):
(North Carolina: absentee ballot vs. electronic, inexplicable 6% edge to Bush in electronic:)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x45003http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/12/233831/06Democratic Underground (TruthIsAl)l: "To believe Bush won, you have to believe…"
Part 1
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1316010Part 2
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1358806Part 3
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x197878In progress compilations of various articles and materials on 2004 Election Fraud:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x311105http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=304579
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