Reply #22: Action Needed at Home and Abroad - Reject Ohio's Tainted Electoral Votes

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Saturday, January 1, 2005

Action Needed at Home and Abroad


As 2005 begins, here's to a better year for all of us. 2004 ended on a somber note, with the tainted elections in Ohio and New Mexico, and then the overwhelming devastation caused by a massive tsunami on December 26th. As we prepare to protest the tainted Ohio Electoral College votes over the next few weeks, please support tsunami relief efforts to help provide food, temporary shelter, and clean water to those in urgent need.

Reject Ohio's Tainted Electoral Votes

Please contact your Representative and Senators (especially Republicans) and ask them to reject Ohio's Electoral College votes, and conduct a full Congressional Investigation of the massive disenfranchisement of minority voters in Ohio and elsewhere.

In addition, plan to join the demonstrations starting January 3-6 in Ohio, Washington, D.C., and in your state. It's our democracy, and we won't "get over it"!

Ohio Electors met on December 13 to cast votes for George Bush even though the Ohio recount had not yet started. These tainted votes must be rejected and a new recount ordered when Congress convenes on January 6 to count the Electoral College votes.
Among the problems that must be remedied were the votes that the Ohio Recount — under Ohio law — was not allowed to consider, because they were never counted. These are the "spoiled" ballots, the rejected provisional ballots, the people who were not allowed to cast a vote.

Thousands of Ohio voters, including elderly and disabled, and parents with children, were forced to wait in line for hours in the rain and the cold. As the video shows, many of these men and women, after standing in the rain for hours waiting to vote, were turned away, given provisional ballots, or had to leave and could not vote at all.

These are the people whose children stand on the front lines in Iraq. Who will speak for these people? Who will defend and protect them on our own shores? It is time to end this shameful chapter in American history once and for all.


Link:
http://www.votecobb.org/recount/daily_update/