Reply #4: SAMPLE LETTER + SEnate Addies

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am currently scrambling to send this email to ALL senators, regardless of party affiliation. I encourage others to do the same. Here are the contact addresses.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Dear Senator:

Even though I reside outside your jurisdiction and as such may not be considered your constituent, I write you today regarding a matter that is of great concern to all Americans; indeed, to the very notion of democracy and the democratic process.

As you may or may not be aware, substantial controversy has arisen in the wake of our most recent presidential election. Charges of voting fraud, voter suppression and the disenfranchisement of minority voters have circulated not only on the internet and in the international press, but also within the ranks of the government and the citizenry. At present, there is enough evidence of irregularities, anamolies and incidents to strongly suggest that the results of the election currently scheduled for certification do not accurately reflect the will of the people because tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of voters were either prevented from casting ballots or their votes remain uncounted.

On Dec. 6, the House Judiciary Committee held a forum in Washington, DC, in which many people spoke passionately about the issues at hand and the implications involved in certifying the dubitable results of the November 2 election. In his opening statement, Congressman John Conyers stated: "This is not about John Kerry, this is about the voters. There were voters who stood in ten-hour lines to exercise their most basic and fundamental civic right. There were voters who worked for days to the polls for the elderly and the poor and to provide assistance to language minorities. As hard as voters worked for the vote, we need to work just as hard to make every single vote count."

As Mr. Jesse Jackson, Sr. reminds us in his puissant commentary on the state of affairs, especially as the issues at hand pertain to traditionally "underrepresented" groups, "the race is not over until it is certified that every vote is counted and until a full investigation shows that every vote was honored. And for the future credibility of the process, we must end the practice and precedent of voter suppression and disenfranchisement schemes."

Though the mainstream media has suppressed the controversy as effectively as partisan-efforts suppressed major constituencies' votes in this election, there are many thousands, perhaps millions, of concerned American citizens currently actively involved in the campaign to withhold certification of the election results until all the ongoing recounts and investigations have been completed.

This is not a partisan issue: it relates to the integrity of our democratic process. Whatever your partisan loyalties, whatever your political ambitions, I urge you to take a stand NOW in the name of democracy--a principle we currently seek to bring to the Middle East in a multi-billion-dollar campaign that has already cost us well over a thousand American lives and over 100,000 Iraqi civilian casualties. It is time for all Americans, our Senators and Representatives included, to demonstrate to ourselves and to the rest of the world that we do indeed represent the ideals of democracy: if we cannot conduct fair elections in our own country, we certainly cannot be taken seriously as representatives of democracy in the rest of the world.

Regardless of whether a proverbial "smoking gun" will ever be found to prove beyond a shadow of doubt that fraudulent tampering with machines led to the incumbent party's putative victory, there is every reason to believe that this election was "rigged" by suppressing the voices and votes of substantial portions of the population.

I urge you to review documentation of the Dec. 6 forums now available at the House Judiciary Committee website:

http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/voteforum.html

I furthermore encourage you to review additional evidence and documentation that has been compiled and collected by concerned citizens in their concerted, collaborative efforts to determine what, exactly, did happen in our most recent presidential election. The following website provides a comprehensive overview of documentation:

http://shadowbox.i8.com/

I urge you to vote your conscience and protest the certification of the final vote tally in congress. Anything else represents an unconscionable act of negligence on your part. The citizens have collected and presented enough evidence to merit and indeed to mandate that you do everything in your power to prevent the certification of these results.

I remain respectfully yours,