7 Items for your Tool Kit -- to Get the Vote Back!

[Zan_of_Texas]

RESOURCES FOR RECOUNT

The Alliance for Democracy collecting donations for Ohio recount. The organization was founded by journalist Ronnie Dugger, who wrote one of the first major pieces warning of voting machine flaws, in 1988. http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/

C.A.S.E. Citizens' Alliance for Secure Elections http://www.caseohio.org

Help America Recount a 527 working with the National Ballot Integrity Project and BlackBoxVoting.org to raise funds for recounts, audits and court challenges in Florida & fraud audits in New Mexico and Nevada. www.helpamericarecount.org

Green Party The Greens and Libertarians raised over $100,000 to run the recount (in 4 days) -- still raising money to help mobilize possibly 2500 volunteers needed in Ohio, and perhaps elsewhere www.votecobb.org

Libertarian Party www.badnarik.org

Nader calling for a partial recount in NH raising funds www.votenader.org Kevin Zeese, Campaign Spokesperson [phone]

Black Box Voting.org www.blackboxvoting.org Bev Harris & crew doing multi-state audit and forensic work on elections, currently investigating counties in Florida

Common Cause Ohio part of recount effort in Ohio (614)-224-2497 www.commoncause-ohio.org/ccause/home.htm [email protected]

Votergate 30 Minute video, free online, of voting anomalies, etc. -- needs money to continue to investigate and make a longer film. http://www.votergate.tv

Votewatch http://www.votewatch.us wants $250,000 to do a professional statistical analysis of the election which can be used as hard evidence of fraud

Verified Voting.org www.verifiedvoting.org has a preliminary analysis of nearly 900 reports of e-voting irregularities

True Majority www.truemajority.org founded by Ben of Ben & Jerry's fame

Electronic Freedom Foundation www.eff.org moving under the Open Records Act, which allows people to see government records, to gather information, including the impoundment of voting machines, in some counties in Florida, Ohio, New Mexico and Pennsylvania that had serious problems with the machines. Local counsel are needed to help with this effort. Contact Cindy Cohn at [email protected]

N.C. Coalition for Verifiable Voting www.ncvoter.net

Election Protection Coalition http://www.electionprotection2004.org Multicultural coalition of dozens of organizations. Over 15,000 problems reported to their hotline on election day; over 25,000 volunteers mobilized.
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Secretary of State of Ohio, Ken Blackwell, Republican www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/

GAO - contact, request investigation of election machinery, processes: http://www.gao.gov/fraudnet/fraudnet.htm

Congressman Rush Holt wrote HR 2239 for voter verified paper ballot, also has a site on voting http://www.counteveryvote.org/