Reply #34: TN Rally to focus on election fraud claims

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Saturday, 01/01/05


By HOLLY EDWARDS
Staff Writer


Organizers insist that congressional inquiry needed


Civil rights leaders, social scientists, elected officials and local activists will rally tomorrow afternoon for a federal investigation into allegations of fraud in the November presidential election.

The House Judiciary Committee reported after the election that it received some 57,000 complaints about voting problems on election day, ranging from a shortage of voting machines to glitches with electronic vote casting machines. The U.S. Government Accountability Office has launched an investigation into the complaints.

Rally organizers said the sheer volume of complaints warrants a Congressional investigation into possible election tampering and points to the need for a massive overhaul of the country's voting system. They said they hope Congress looks into the complaints before it accepts the decision of the Electoral College.

''After looking at all the evidence, this appears to be a fraudulent election,'' said Bernie Ellis of Murray County, who organized the rally. ''In the future, we need an election that's verifiable with a paper trail. The sanctity of the voting process is in question and we're tampering with the future of our democracy here.''

At the third ''Gathering to Save Our Democracy'' rally tomorrow, leaders of the 1960s Nashville civil rights movement will discuss what was necessary to secure voting rights in the past, social scientists will review the latest evidence of election problems in Ohio and other states, and elected officials will discuss what can be done now.

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