ACTION! LETTER OF THE WEEK #4 *revised*: Shelley, Diebold & Election Fraud

[Peace Patriot]

LETTER OF THE WEEK #4 – REVISED.

Here is a revised SAMPLE LETTER on the Kevin Shelley situation, much improved as to the wording and main points, but still rather long (3 pages, including 2 pg. letter and 1 pg. annotated list of election fraud urls) in 10 pt. Times font.

LETTERS ARE URGENTLY needed to educate California Democrats on 2004 election fraud, to support Shelley in his anti-Diebold actions, and to warn them of the consequences of lack of vigilance on this matter.

GO HERE for a list of current DU threads on this situation (full list towards the bottom), and other information—including California Democratic office holders who are on the WRONG SIDE of this issue.:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x319613

In brief: CA Sec of State Kevin Shelley resigned last Friday, effective as of March 1. He had decertified and sued Diebold for their lies about their electronic voting machines, and provided Californians with a paper ballot option for 2004. The charges against him seem farcically minor, and are probably wholly unfounded. His real sin was going after Diebold, and trying to protect CA's election system--with Arnold Schwarzenegger planning an initiative this year to redistrict CA and rid him of CA's progressive legislature, among other BushCon plans for CA.

Unfortunately, some of CA's Dems are corruptly tied up with Diebold (or just ignorant of the perils), and have piled on to the attack on Shelley, which was led by the San Francisco Chronicle (a truly execrable newspaper) and it all got telegraphed around the state, putting terrific pressure on Shelley (whose mother is in intensive care, according to the L.A. Times).

CONTACT KEVIN SHELLEY:

EMAIL: [email protected] or [email protected]
CALL: [phone], or [phone]
Choose the executive office from the message menu.

CONTRIBUTE TO KEVIN SHELLEY'S LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: Very important!

Write checks to: Legal Defense Fund

Olson, Hagel & Fishburn
555 Capitol Mall, Suite 1425
Sacramento, CA 95814
[phone]

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...and CONTACT CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS!

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SAMPLE LETTER

Your name and address, and the date, and the no. of pages, if it's a fax.

Dear (California Democrat):

I strongly support California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, and approve of his decertification and suit against Diebold, his providing Californians with a paper ballot option, and his other efforts at transparent elections, and I believe that the scurrilous campaign to remove him from office is ill motivated and will result in a catastrophe for the California Democratic Party, for the people of California and for the nation.

Some California Democratic politicians are on the wrong side of this controversy, and I don't know if the reason is corruption or ignorance, but if it is ignorance, I want to help correct that problem.

First, I would like to recommend,

1) strong support for Shelley's work in trying to safeguard California voters against electronic election fraud;

2) urging Shelley to remain in office if he can possibly bear up under this disgusting and unfounded attack;

3) resistance to any appointee of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican or Democrat, who falls below Shelley's high standard of vigilance regarding the integrity of our election system; and

4) throwing Diebold and other electronic voting machines into San Francisco Bay, Lake Tahoe, off the Santa Monica Pier, or into some other body of water comparable to Boston Harbor in the spirit of the Boston Tea Party.

Re: #4. Yes, I think it's that bad. Electronic voting machines are so insecure and hackable—and so untransparent and obviously corrupt, run on SECRET, proprietary programming code, owned and controlled by major Bush supporters—that I am convinced we have lost our right to vote!

How could this very unpopular President have been "re-elected"?

Consider, first of all, Bush's low approval ratings--hovering around 50% since the election and dropping below 50% at the Inauguration—unprecedented lack of approval for a recently "re-elected" second term president. Also, nearly 60% of Americans disapprove of the war on Iraq, and 63% disapprove of torture under any circumstances. How could Americans give Bush this astounding "vote of no confidence" in opinion polls, after "re-electing" him by 3.5 million votes?

The mysterious "re-election" of George Bush is key to an understanding of the perils of electronic voting, as well as to the mystery of other Democratic losses around the nation.

Here is a summary of just two of the recent expert studies from the mountain of evidence pointing to a wrong result in the 2004 presidential election, some of it listed below.

Dr. Steven Freeman provides an astute analysis of the predictable vote for John Kerry in 2004, using the base vote going in (who voted in 2000), the big switch from Nader to Kerry, 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. (Dr. Freeman's two studies on the 2004 election have primarily to do with the impossible odds against a Bush win, given Kerry's win in the exit polls.)

Dr. Freeman's second report on the 2004 election will be published as a book in May, and is available to interested parties upon request at http://www.appliedresearch.us/sf/epdiscrep.htm

In yet another new study, on January 29, 2005, nine Ph.D.'s and other experts from leading universities issued a report that also calls the 2004 election result into serious question. They find that Kerry won the exit polls (by a 3% margin). They find the odds against exit poll error--and thus, the odds against the Bush win --to be 1 in 10 million. 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.pdf

These reports come after many other investigations and reports (see below), all of which point to the same thing: Stolen Election II.


How did they do it?

You need only look at the non-transparency of electronic voting, and who owns and controls the source code that tabulates all our votes to know that prime conditions for fraud were present. Indeed, the electronic systems were like an open bank vault—an invitation to fraud for those with the means and the motive. Would these same people who stole the 2000 election, and probably stole some of the 2002 by-elections as well, resist such a temptation? Did they not deliberately set up the conditions for fraud?

• The programming source code that counts all our votes is held as SECRET, proprietary information—no public review!--by major donors and supporters of the Bush/Cheney regime, including Bush/Cheney campaign chair, Wally O'Dell (Diebold), who promised in writing to "deliver Ohio to Bush," and rightwing billionaire H. Ahmanson (ES&S).

• A third of country voted with no paper trail whatsoever—let alone a voter verified paper ballot—a circumstance that was deliberately arranged by Tom DeLay's obstruction of transparency measures in HAVA, backed by the electronic voting machine companies.

• These electronic machines are notable for their extreme insecurity, unreliability and hackability: one hacker, a couple of minutes, leaving no trace. (See the Johns Hopkins report, and the Chuck Herrin demonstration.)

Luckily, there were others ways to check for fraud. For instance, all studies of the Nov. 2 Exit Polls point to a Kerry win, and reveal impossible odds against a Bush win, due to the skew towards Bush in Exit Poll/Official Tally comparisons—that is, the uneven padding of Bush votes in critical regions—that cannot be accounted for by some imagined bias in the Exit Polls. There have also been comparisons of paper ballot vs. electronic voting, absentee ballot vs. electronic voting, and top of the ticket vs. lower ticket, all pointing to massive electronic fraud in Bush's favor.

Indeed, it appears that the movement to oust Bush was so big and so evident in the weeks leading up to the election day, that Bush operatives in Ohio, Florida and other places had to go all out, using every means of vote suppression, machine "malfunction," and outright illegality—combined with electronic fraud—to keep Bush in office. The touchscreen machines that kept changing Kerry votes to Bush votes all day long without correction are a good example. So, too, were the shortage of precincts and voting machines in African American and other Democratic districts, leading to 10 hour voting lines, in flagrant violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Congress received 57,000 such complaints.

But capping all of this is the distinct and impossible skew to Bush that curves from east to west across the country (most prominent in the battleground states), indicating the Bush operatives' anxiety about securing the election early on, by fraudulent means. See:

The Time Zone Discrepancy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x318693


The Exit Polls "altered" on Election Day

And here is something else that most Americans don't know: The Exit Poll data showing a Kerry win on everybody's TV screens on election night was changed, as the night went on—it was "adjusted" to fit the "official results" that were coming in from central electronic vote tabulators. Americans were thereby denied the information that Kerry won the Exit Polls—unlike in the Ukraine, where voters could see the two conflicting figures—the Exit Polls vs. the "official results"—and knew something was wrong. This Exit Poll "adjustment" in our election contributed to the illusion of a Bush win, and prevented an outcry by voters.

But that majority—which voted for Kerry, and voted with particular intent to oust the Bush regime—still exists, and still believes in our progressive country and its founding principles—the rule of laws not men, consent of the governed, a balance of power, and equality and justice.

Thousands of activists around the country are fighting to restore majority rule in this country, beginning with restoring our right to vote. We hope you will join us in this greatest of democracy movements. We stand ready to assist any politician who courageously pursues progressive policies, and who is willing to investigate the 2004 election and support true election reform.

I urge you to study the attached reports on the 2004 election, and gird yourself for the attempted Bushification of California, now in progress.

Yours sincerely,

XXXX XXXXXX


ATTACHED

Exit poll analysis - astronomical odds against Bush win:

Dr. Steven Freeman: http://www.appliedresearch.us/sf/epdiscrep.htm
Dr. Ron Baiman: http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/997
Dr. Webb Mealy: http://www.selftest.net/redshift.htm
Jonathan Simon: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00142.htm
9 Ph.D's from leading universities call for investigation:
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.edu

Johns Hopkins report on insecurity of electronic voting (general): http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00196.htm#5

Easy demo of the how insecure electronic voting machines are:
http://www.chuckherrin.com/hackthevote.htm

Ohio vote suppression: http://www.bpac.info

Widespread machine fraud and dirty tricks in over 20 states:
http://www.flcv.com/ussumall.html

Democratic 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=203x45003

Democratic Underground (TruthIsAll): "To believe Bush won, you have to believe…"
(Parts 1, 2 and 3:)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1316010
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1358806
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x197878

Democratic Underground (TruthIsAll): The Time Zone Discrepancy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x31869

In progress compilations of various articles and materials on 2004 Election Fraud:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x311105
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=304579

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CONTACTING CALIFORNIA STATE SENATORS AND ASSEMBLYFOLK:

CA SENATE & ASSEMBLY CONTACT: FAX

http://www.cawa.org/legcont.htm

Includes Assembly & Senate FAX NUMBERS and also, click on name for direct link to EMAIL. BEWARE: This list is very useful for providing FAX NUMBERS for each Senate and Assembly District, but it may have inaccuracies about current names and email links. I found one regarding the 30th Assembly District, which lists the name Dean Florez and his email, but correctly links to the current rep Nicole Parra's web site and gives correct FAX AND TEL NOS. Advice: Check other lists for current office holder names, and go back here for quick access to FAX NOS.

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CA ASSEMBLY CONTACT: EMAIL

http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset7text.htm

listed by name, party, distr, bio & direct EMAIL LINK TO THEIR WEB SITE

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CA SENATE CONTACT: EMAIL

CA Senate Email Addresses

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Senators who are not listed here, or who do not respond to email messages, can be contacted by the contact form on his/her website, regular mail or by phone. Links to the Senators' home pages, where contact information is listed, can be found at http://www.sen.ca.gov/~newsen/senators/senators.htp

CA SENATE WEB SITE LINKS
http://www.senate.ca.gov/~newsen/senators/senators.htp

SENATORS FULL NAMES

Aanestad, Sam
Ackerman, Dick
Alarcón, Richard
Alquist, Elaine
Ashburn, Roy
Battin, James
Bowen, Debra
Campbell, John
Cedillo, Gilbert
Chesbro, Wes

Cox, Dave
Denham, Jeff
Ducheny, Denise Moreno
Dunn, Joseph
Dutton, Robert
Escutia, Martha
Figueroa, Liz
Florez, Dean
Hollingsworth, Dennis
Kehoe, Christine

Kuehl, Sheila
Lowenthal, Alan S.
Machado, Michael
Maldonado, Abel
Margett, Bob
McClintock, Tom
Migden, Carole
Morrow, Bill
Murray, Kevin
Ortiz, Deborah
Perata, Don
Poochigian, Charles
Romero, Gloria
Runner, George C.
Scott, Jack
Simitian, S. Joseph (Joe)
Soto, Nell
Speier, Jackie
Torlakson, Tom
Vincent, Edward

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California Democratic Party
CA Democratic Party Chair Art Torres

http://www.cadem.org/site/apps/fc/form.asp?c=fvLRK7O3E&b=34877

Sacramento Office
1401 21st Street, Suite 100
Sacramento, California 95814
[phone] phone
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Los Angeles Office
888 S. Figueroa Street, 4th Floor
Los Angeles, California 90017
[phone] phone
[phone] fax

[davidinalameda]

1. and do you strongly support Shelley's other actions

hiring unqualified relatives of campaign donors
taking highly questionable campaign contributions
making the Secretary of State's office a hostile working environment

[Peace Patriot]

2. Proven by whom?

And, dwickham, do YOU support...

--a man appointed Governor by Time magazine, Larry King, George Schultz and Kenneth Lay?

--looting of California's $10 billion budget surplus by BushCon companies, then taking it out of the hides of California state pensioners and services to the poor and to children?

--Schwarzenegger re-districting California?

--Schwarzenegger disempowering and destroying California's progressive legislature?

--the Texification, Dieboldisation and Bushification of California?

and by extension...

--the looting and destruction of the Social Security fund?

--the looting of the federal government and consequent destruction of state programs that serve the public, the poor and children?

--massive theft via military contract, personally enriching BushCons?

--more tax cuts for the rich? more tax breaks for corporations? more corporate control of our country?

--100,000-plus people slaughtered by US bombs in Iraq?

--thousands of people held in indefinite detention for years without trial, and tortured, when the Red Cross has determined that most US detainees are innocent of any crime?

It's all coming to California--all of it, the entire fascist program that our nation is suffering--and Election Fraud is the means. Kevin Shelley's unproven sins are nothing by comparison. He was one of the few Secretaries of State to stand up against these criminals, and he's being taken down because of it, and for no other reason.

[Helga Scow Stern]

4. No, these may be problems, but they do not warrant this attack,

and are clearly motivated by other purposes.

What politician could stand up to the kind of scrutiny that has been unleashed on Shelley? True, the whole system is corrupt, and he may be a part of it, but he should not be ostracized for the genuine integrity he has shown.

Perata has been investigated by the FBI and no one is screaming for him to resign.

Besides, there is good reason to believe many of these charges are exaggerated. If you look at how they arose, it is most uncanny.

[Freddie Stubbs]

9. Why doesn't Shelley speak out and say this is all about Diebold?

:shrug:

[Helga Scow Stern]

18. Have you ever been the subject of a character assassination,

coming at you from all sides?

It takes you about a year or two to see that you are not guilty. At first you think there is something really wrong with you because so many are saying it.

It's an ancient phenomenom. Very effective, because it takes years for one to heal, if they do. It's not all that hard to get going either, if you are skillful at manipulation. It's easy to get everyone to jump on the bandwagon. But heck, there's no one around like that. :shrug:

[Freddie Stubbs]

20. So, your're suggesting the Shelley may not even know that

Diebold is behind this? :shrug:

[Peace Patriot]

3. Note on webforms:

Some office holders' webforms limit emails to 10,000 characters. The above SAMPLE LETTER is approximately 11,200 characters (including spaces) and approximately 9,600 characters (without spaces). I don't know how the webforms count characters, but I would suggest some edits to shave off about 1,000 characters. One easy edit is to delete the election fraud urls that are placed within the text of the letter, and just put "See below for url."

Also, you could delete the following text:

"4) throwing Diebold and other electronic voting machines into San Francisco Bay, Lake Tahoe, off the Santa Monica Pier, or into some other body of water comparable to Boston Harbor in the spirit of the Boston Tea Party.

"Re: #4. Yes, I think it's that bad. Electronic voting machines are so insecure and hackable—and so untransparent and obviously corrupt, run on SECRET, proprietary programming code, owned and controlled by major Bush supporters—that I am convinced we have lost our right to vote!"

And replace it with:

"4) paper ballots, hand counts."

That gets rid of almost 500 characters (with spaces) all by itself. Although it is a spirited remark, it's kind of quirky and personal.

[sacxtra]

25. #4 - another version

Here's my advice for the new plan for WHOEVER takes the job.

America Needs a Breather. A social gathering of rest and relaxation of America.

A one time holiday.
No EVW No Electronic Vote Week (7 days before next election)

Secretary of State provides U-Haul Trucks for equipment to get expedited to the local precint disassembly/and official voting place.

At large precints State Parks and Recreation *COULD* kick in and have an Electronic Voting Machine Sledge Hammer Contest $1 a hammer , $5 for a 3Lb, $50 for the 10Lb. Sledge, and or $500 for the scanner catapult.

The expensive chips and parts can be donated to the schools, and colleges.

Free sodas, hotdogs, beer, music (whatever some sound), paper ballots, and hand counts. (More profit for someone?)

Public Access could cover the growth towards becoming a type B society. (MSM covers entertainment news now)

Then as the country starts to recover, these holiday's should kick in.

There should be a
No T7FCCDS Week (the 7 FCC days spring)

Where the FCC shuts off all annoying emmisions on all frequencies for 7 days. Leave your cell phone/beepers/laptops/two-ways in your storage. No aircraft. No BS. Let the buds in spring develop without all the cancerous noise.

T7DDS Week Getting rid of Insecure Databases Week... like the (No Electronic Vote Week) above (The 7 days of Database Security Winter)
BYOS? (Bring your own sledge?)

No EMDW No Electro-Magnetic Death Week (7 days Turn off H.A.A.R.P. and friends Summer) This should happen in the Summer cause it's TOO HOT already.

Um... maybe in fall it should be repair other problems (Health, Homeless) week.


Suggestions and Corrections to this version are welcome. ;o)

Not sure how many characters are here.

[Helga Scow Stern]

5. Okay. I'm mailing my check to the defense fund,

and I am going to start a fax with your letter, minus the URL's because they won't show up on the fax as is. And besides, they'll get them from you!

I think it is important to get this out NOW, so I will start this first before I write to Conyers, Sensenbrenner, Boxer, etc.

Thanks again, PP, for staying focused and assimilating the diverse multitude of facts, laser-like, onto the page.

:yourock:

I signed on to efax, so this will be my first use of it.

[Peace Patriot]

6. Another problem with recommendation #4 in the sample letter:

As currently written, above, it says:

"4) throwing Diebold and other electronic voting machines into San Francisco Bay, Lake Tahoe, off the Santa Monica Pier, or into some other body of water comparable to Boston Harbor in the spirit of the Boston Tea Party.

"Re: #4. Yes, I think it's that bad. Electronic voting machines are so insecure and hackable—and so untransparent and obviously corrupt, run on SECRET, proprietary programming code, owned and controlled by major Bush supporters—that I am convinced we have lost our right to vote!"


I recommend a re-write as follows (if you use this item)--the change is to the end of the second paragraph:

4) throwing Diebold and other electronic voting machines into San Francisco Bay, Lake Tahoe, off the Santa Monica Pier, or into some other body of water comparable to Boston Harbor in the spirit of the Boston Tea Party.

Re: #4. Yes, I think it's that bad. Electronic voting machines are so insecure and hackable—and so untransparent and obviously corrupt, run on SECRET, proprietary programming code, owned and controlled by major Bush supporters—that I am convinced we have lost our right to vote in many parts of the country and are in grave danger of losing it in California as well.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. thank you so much Peace ! Excellent letter and thanks for

pulling all those links together !!!!

[Helga Scow Stern]

8. I ended up writing a different letter,

incorporating large parts of what you wrote :smilie:

Your name and address, and the date, and the no. of pages, if it's a fax.

February 8, 2005

Dear (California Democrat):

You should know that voting activists smell a rat in what is happening in the planned attack on Secretary of State Kevin Shelley. This issue will not go away, as we see it as an opportunity to force national accountability across party lines for fair elections.

The fact that Shelley is being crucified, most certainly not for the trumped up charges skillfully amassed and dumped on him, but for standing up to Diebold and for auditable elections, will not go unnoticed. We will be urging the House Judiciary Committee, whose Minority Leader is John Conyers from Michigan--who has a special interest in election reform--to use this debacle to bring investigation by the Justice Department. We will request the investigation of activities by possible California perpetrators, including Conny McCormack, members of Diebold counties who are leading the charge against Shelley, and certain journalists and newspapers, and, on a national level, the EAC. It is absolutely astounding to those of us who have been following election fraud that the EAC was here in California with McCormack on election night, and is now investigating Shelley over his supposed partisan use of HAVA funds, while they let the far more guilty Ohio SoS Ken Blackwell go by unscrutinized and undisciplined.

This is a cause celebre not only for California voting activists, but for those around the country, and around the world, so beware. Your integrity is under a microscope in this matter.

We strongly support California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley. We approve of his decertification and suit against Diebold, his providing Californians with a paper ballot option, and his other efforts at transparent elections. We believe that the scurrilous campaign to remove him from office is ill motivated and could result in a catastrophe for the California Democratic Party, for the people of California, and for the nation.

Don’t be one of the California Democratic politicians who are on the wrong side of this controversy, whether through ignorance or corruption.

We urge:

1) Strong support for Shelley's work in trying to safeguard California voters against electronic election fraud. DO NOT LET CONNY McCORMACK OR ANYONE ELSE UNDO Shelley’s stringent requirements.

2) Urge Shelley to remain in office if he can possibly bear up under this disgusting and unfounded attack. At the very least show your support and apologize to him for the lack of it. The public is watching, and this bipartisan character attack and ostracization will not go unnoticed, especially in the coming months.

3) Resist any appointee of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican or Democrat, who falls below Shelley's high standard of vigilance regarding the integrity of our election system.

4) In election standards, at a bare minimum, insist on inspectable code, no hidden modems inside voting machines, and verifiable paper audits.

Please educate yourself and do the right thing before it is too late.

Sincerely,

XXXXXXX


Edited to add corrections.

[Amaryllis]

10. See this thread: Shelley staffer says supportive emails helpful:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss//duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x321171

[Peace Patriot]

12. Thank you, Amaryllis, it's good to know that!

Amaryllis's post also has a new email address for Shelley (not previously posted) and a lot of info. about the state of things, and what to say--AND THAT OUT OF STATERS CAN HELP.

Show your support: [email protected]

[Helga Scow Stern]

11. Current CA Legislature Contact Info

http://www.legislature.ca.gov/

Everything is navigable from there.

[Peace Patriot]

13. Ojai Person, what a wonderful letter! Full of fire! I love it!

And you make a lot of points that the sample letter doesn't make! Let them be warned!

Thanks, too, for the legisl url. I've been struggling with various databases today, and machine problems, but did get faxed letters and emails off to some of the key players, and will continue tonight.

Yeah, I've put off the Gonzales responses for the moment, too. I got off some letters to the best speakers on Gonzales, to the 6 Dem miscreants who voted yes, and the 3 who didn't bother to show up for the vote, and will continue after letters on Shelley are completed.

[Helga Scow Stern]

19. You are great! Please keep rallying us.

It's easy to lose focus in the face of these massive assaults. We are all working together, and many minds are better than one. So are many faxes! So we have to keep going!

I found that using "we" as if I am speaking for other "voting rights" activists is more empowering.

"We", no matter what part of the country (or world) we are from, have a right and necessity as voting rights activists to be appalled at this treatment of Shelley.

I don't know what else to cal us but voting rights activists. I changed it from the lame, "voting activists" after I had faxed about a third of the letters. There's no time to debate! We got to stay on this.

[Peace Patriot]

14. KICK through this week! LETTERS NEEDED! n/t

[Peace Patriot]

15. The CA auto club database listed in this post above...

for CA SENATE & ASSEMBLY CONTACT: FAX

http://www.cawa.org/legcont.htm

...lists the outgoing CA legislature. It IS USEFUL FOR FAX NOS. (because the Sacramento fax numbers listed there do not change, when the office holder is changed), but be aware that there have been name changes as of the last election. www.cawa.org/legcont.htm gives you Distr # (which links to the correct web site in most cases), name, Sacto tel & fax, and an email link (sometimes wrong).

The Senate EMAIL list above is current and correct. I'm working on getting similar info. for the Assembly, and also providing local numbers (a lot of work). (WHY DOESN'T ANY WEB SITE LIST EVERYTHING--FOR ALL SENATORS AND ASSEMBLYMEMBERS? IT DRIVES ME CRAZY! WELL, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THAT LIST *HERE*, BY DAMN!)

If you use the www.cawa.org list (so handy with all the FAX NUMBERS together), here are the changes in the Senate list:

SENATE CHANGES (DEM):

John Burton District 3 is now held by CAROLE MIGDEN (same Sacto nos.)
(Note: Don Perata is now President Pro Tem of the Senate; Burton was before.)

Byron Sher District 11 is now held by JOE SIMITIAN (same Sacto nos.)

John Vasconcellos District 13 is now held by ELAINE ALQUIST (same Sacto nos.)

Jim Costa District 16 is now held by DEAN FLOREZ (same Sacto nos.))

District 18 is now held by a Repub Roy Ashburn (not Dem Jack O'Connell)

Richard Polanco District 22 is now held by GILBERT CEDILLO (same Sacto nos.)

GLORIA ROMERO now holds District 24.

Betty Karnette District 27 is now held by ALAN LOWENTHAL (same Sacto nos.)

Dede Alpert District 39 is now held by CHRSTINE KEHOE (same Sacto nos.)

Steve Peace District 40 is now held by DENISE MORENO (same Sacto nos.)


Some inaccuracies in the Assembly list at www.cawa.org/legcont.htm (old Assembly), are wrong (old) names for Districts 12, 13, 21, 22, 30, 46, 54, 76--at LEAST--and there are likley more. (Many are former assemblymembers running for and winning a Senate seat.)

Despite the retirements of three great, old warhorse progressives--John Burton, Byron Sher and John Vasconcellos--the Democrats maintained their strong majority in the Senate, 25 to 15 (and I'm sure in the Assembly as well, but I don't have the number). This stranglehold on government spending and policy that sometimes favors the poor, the ignored, the ill served, children, families, workers, small businesses, minorities, and the middle class--in short, the vast majority of citizens-- is what Schwarzenegger and the BushCons want to destroy with election fraud in California.

[Peace Patriot]

16. Keep KICKING through this week! WRITE YOUR LETTER about this...

...damnable situation, and fire it off to the media, too!

I'll post some media info. this afternoon, but the San Fransciso Chronicle (crap rag that started all this), the Sacramento Bee (corporate rag that trumpeted it) and the Los Angeles Times (better written, more comprehensive, tries harder on some selective issues, corporate rag) (don't know where they stand on this), for starters.

I'm not sure what's happening on SF and LA radio. Haven't listened for quite some time. I'll give some thought to alternative radio.

Media Blaster-just cut and paste the 4 sets of media email addresses into your email program, write your message, and send:

http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity2_12.htm

Between the Shelley thing--and its potential to expose (rather than entrench) Diebold--and the Christoper Hitchens thing (seems to be saying, in Vanity Fair, that there was fraud in Ohio), we might have a chance to get more word out to more uninformed Kerry voters who are suffering angst and depression over the country "turning red."

The Christopher Hitchins discussion is at:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=321721&mesg_id=321721

[Peace Patriot]

17. KICK! ACTION NEEDED...NOW! Here's an easier list of attachments:

CORRECTED FOR DU CUTTING OFF OF THE URL

-- makes it easier to cut and paste --

Note: In some DU postings of urls, DU cuts off the end of the url, so that you must click to the original to obtain the full url. This list attempts to overcome that program and give you the full url. In order to do so, I've put a space after the point at which DU cuts it off and have added the missing end part. In cutting and pasting, remove the ". . . " and the space, in order to get the full url. (And note, on the Baiman url, only one number was cut off the end, the number 7. Same is true of the Johns Hopkins url, only the number 5 is cut off.)

Dr. Steven Freeman: http://www.appliedresearch.us/sf/epdiscrep.htm

Dr. Ron Baiman: http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/99... 7

Dr. Webb Mealy: http://www.selftest.net/redshift.htm

Nine 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.edu

Johns Hopkins report on insecurity of electronic voting (general): http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00196.htm#... 5

Easy demo of the how insecure voting machines are:
http://www.chuckherrin.com/hackthevote.htm

"Myth Breakers: Facts About Electronic Elections" (2nd edition): www.votersunite.org

Ohio vote suppression: http://www.bpac.info

Documentation of widespread machine fraud and dirty tricks in over 20 states:
http://www.flcv.com/ussumall.html

Democratic Underground (ignatzmouse):
(North Carolina: absentee ballot vs. electronic, inexplicable 6% edge to Bush in electronic:)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... hp?az=view_all&address=203x45003

(also at:) http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/12/233831/06

Democratic Underground (TruthIsAl)l: "To believe Bush won, you have to believe…"

Part 1
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... p?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1316010

Part 2
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... p?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1358806

Part 3
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... hp?az=view_all&address=203x197878

Democratic Underground (TruthIsAll): The Time Zone Discrepancy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... hp?az=view_all&address=203x318693


In progress compilations of various articles and materials on 2004 Election Fraud:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... hp?az=view_all&address=203x311105

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... hp?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=304579

[feelthebreeze]

23. Kick it...

[Peace Patriot]

21. KICK! n/t

[Peace Patriot]

22. CURRENT DISCUSSION at Ojai Person's Compilation Thread on the Coup in...

...California:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=325113#325318

(--need a new word for pitchfork...)

[Melissa G]

24. Kick for P P!

Great Letter! Thanks for the info on 'how' it was done. I need all the data I can gather on this how topic. Does D U have it in one place somewhere?


edit for clarity

[Peace Patriot]

26. KICK! n/t