The BIGGEST TWO WEEKS since the election! Blast the media about it please!

[tommcintyre]

KEEP KICKED: Blast the media to:

Cover the BREAKING ELECTION FRAUD/REFORM STORIES

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As you read below, you will see that the last two weeks have been unprecedented! We are making some real inroads into exposing (and getting coverage of) THE ELECTION FRAUD, AND NEEDED ELECTION REFORM.

So take positive action now! Let's keep the momentum going!

Send the following message to the National Media, and then tell everyone you know to do the same!

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In just four mouse clicks, (and a little copying/pasting) tell 391 national media contacts to Cover the NATIONAL ELECTION REFORM CONFERENCE. (It takes less than two minutes to make a difference!)

You will send the following message:

http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity.htm
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The last two weeks have seen an unprecedented series of events and articles regarding election reform, and the investigation of the 2004 election irregularities. As you can see below, many media venues (and highly respected statesmen/politicians) are now investigating and speaking out on these issues. Isn’t it time you do it too?

Please investigate and report on these important stories:
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The Carter/Baker commission (first hearing scheduled for Monday, April, 18th):

Press release:
Jimmy Carter to Chair Election Reform Commission
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=8000837&src=rss/politicsNews

Commission on Federal Election Reform (website):
http://www.american.edu/ia/cfer/

Congressman John Conyers, the ranking minority member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, letter former-President Jimmy Carter
http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/ltrtopotuscarter.pdf
http://www.conyersblog.us/

Related story:
“Conyers to Carter: James Baker 'Inappropriate' for Blue-Ribbon Election Commission!
Ranking Minority House Judiciary Comm. Member Calls for True Voting Rights Advocates to Be Included on Commission
ALSO: American Center for Voting Rights GOP Front Group Confirmed as 'Academic Advisor' to Panel!

In a letter sent yesterday by Congressman John Conyers, the ranking minority member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, to former-President Jimmy Carter, Conyers has expressed his "strong opposition" to the "conflicting interest" of having Bush/Cheney loyalist, James A. Baker, III serve as the Co-Chair of a recently seated blue-ribbon commission set to investigate Election 2004!

Carter has been named as Co-Chair, along with Baker, on the secretly convened and recently announced commission to investigate problems in Election 2004 and to make recommendations on changes needed to improve accuracy, confidence, transparency and inclusion in the American Electoral System.”
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001316.htm
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MSNBC/REUTERS: Washington state suit wants vote machines opened
SEATTLE, April 12 - “An electronic voting machine maker is battling a voter rights advocate in Washington State who wants to force the company to reveal the machines' software blueprint.”
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/reuters04-12-165037.asp?t=renew&vts=41220051903
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Miami Herald Discusses Clint Curtis, Calls for a Return to Paper Ballots!
Condemns E-Voting, Outlines a Litany of What Went Wrong in 2004 Election Fiasco!

“The drumbeat of the pro-democracy movement in America (who could have ever imagined there'd be a need for one in this country?!) seems to be growing louder as more and more Mainstream Media folks get into the game!

Following on the heels of yesterday's Miami Herald piece about Miami-Dade's possible return to paper ballots, Herald columnist, Robert Steinback jumps in with a damning condemnation of Electronic Voting today pointing out that, "Nothing is more important, for the world's pre-eminent democracy, than assuring the sanctity of each vote."
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001318.htm

Summary of the Clint Curtis story:
“In his (Curtis) affidavit and videotaped sworn testimony presented before members of the U.S. House Judiciary committee, Curtis claims to have been asked by U.S. Congressman Tom Feeney (R-FL) to design a "vote-rigging software prototype".
http://www.bradblog.com/ClintCurtisSummary.htm

Related story:
CLINT CURTIS PASSES POLYGRAPH EXAM!
Story Broken in Florida's St. Petersburg Times by Pulitzer Prize Winning Reporter!

“The lie-detector test, administered to Curtis by Tim Robinson, the retired chief polygraph operator for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, found that the Florida whistleblowing software designer who has charged in a sworn affidavit that he was asked by U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL) to create an electronic vote-rigging software prototype in 2000, was indeed found to be truthful in all of his responses!”
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001313.htm
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(Chicago) Tribune Media Services syndicate – (Story to be published April 14th) - The
THE SILENT SCREAM OF NUMBERS by Robert C. Koehler - Tribune Media Services

“As they slowly hack democracy to death, we're as alone - we citizens - as we've ever been, protected only by the dust-covered cliches of the nation's founding: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

It's time to blow off the dust and start paying the price.

The media are not on our side. The politicians are not on our side. It's just us, connecting the dots, fitting the fragments together, crunching the numbers, wanting to know why there were so many irregularities in the last election and why these glitches and dirty tricks and wacko numbers had not just an anti-Kerry but a racist tinge. This is not about partisan politics. It's more like: "Oh no, this can't be true."

I just got back from what was officially called the National Election Reform Conference, in Nashville, Tenn., an extraordinary pulling together of disparate voting-rights activists - 30 states were represented, 15 red and 15 blue - sponsored by a Nashville group called Gathering to Save Our Democracy. It had the feel of 1775: citizen patriots taking matters into their own hands to reclaim the republic. This was the level of its urgency.”
The complete article is posted here:
http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/2172/The_Silent_Scream_of_Numbers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x356725
Background info on the National Election Reform Conference here:
http://www.freepress.org/conf.php
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April 1st - Analysis of the 2004 Presidential Election Exit Poll Discrepancies

The report concludes: “ We believe that the absence of any statistically-plausible explanation for the discrepancy between Edison/Mitofsky’s exit poll data and the official presidential vote tally is an unanswered question of vital national importance that needs thorough investigation.”

Complete report:
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit_Polls_2004_Edison-Mitofsky.pdf

An executive summary of the report by is available at:
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit_Polls_summary.pdf

Press release:
Scientific Analysis Suggests Presidential Vote Counts May Have Been Altered

“Officially, President Bush won November's election by 2.5%, yet exit polls showed Kerry winning by 3% <1>. According to a report to be released today by a group of university statisticians, the odds of a discrepancy this large between the national exit poll and election results happening by accident are close to 1 in a million.

In other words, by random chance alone, it could not have happened. But it did.”
http://www.uscountvotes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85&Itemid=41

Related stories:
Group says chance of exit polls being so wrong in '04 vote is one-in-959,000
By Stephen Dyer - Beacon Journal staff writer

“There's a one-in-959,000 chance that exit polls could have been so wrong in predicting the outcome of the 2004 presidential election, according to a statistical analysis released Thursday.”

“The explanation for the discrepancy that was offered by the exit polling firm -- that Kerry voters were more likely to participate in the exit polling -- is an ``implausible theory,'' according to the report issued Thursday by US Count Votes, a group that claims it's made up of about two dozen statisticians.”
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/11284237.htm

Analysis - Vote Counts May Have Been Altered

“The consortium that conducted the presidential exit polls, Edison/Mitofsky, issued a report in January suggesting that the discrepancy between election results and exit polls occurred because Bush voters were more reticent than Kerry voters in response to pollsters.

The authors of this newly released scientific study "Analysis of the 2004 Presidential Election Poll Discrepancies" considers this "reluctant Bush responder" hypothesis to be highly implausible, based on extensive analysis of Edison/Mitofsky's exit poll data. They conclude, /“The required pattern of exit poll participation by Kerry and Bush voters to satisfy the exit poll data defies empirical experience and common sense under any assumed scenario.”

A state-by-state analysis of the discrepancy between exit polls and official election results shows highly improbable skewing of the election results, overwhelmingly biased towards the President.”

“Ph.D. statisticians in America who have seen this group's preliminary exit poll study have not refuted it. This new study is a much more comprehensive an analysis of the exit poll discrepancies.”
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00001.htm

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FIGHT BACK! DO IT NOW! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

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

[Jo March]

1. Kick and nominated!

This is a great tool, folks. Let's use it for all we're worth!

[Melodybe]

2. Done! Thank god for copy and paste!

Thank you tommcintyre for your hard work!

edited to say hi to my partner in crime arnheim
:hi:

[Dhalgren]

3. On it! Kick!

[Melodybe]

4. Kick cause people need to do this and it is not hard to copy and paste

:kick: for real democracy

[leftchick]

5. Well this is great news.....

But didn't I read where John Conyers is asking that Baker not be on that Commission? OMG! Jim the Fixer??? I hope Carter is on to him.

[tommcintyre]

27. "Conyers has expressed his "strong opposition..."

"to the "conflicting interest" of having Bush/Cheney loyalist, James A. Baker, III serve as the Co-Chair..."

In the email being sent. This is a big part of the "why" of this blaster message - to let the media know Bushco is trying to hijack this commission.

Together, we WILL prevail.

[leftchick]

45. What does Carter have to say about it?

I agree, we will prevail! :)

[tommcintyre]

47. So far.. "unavailable for comment" READ THIS RAW STORY

http://rawstory.com/exclusives/alexandrovna/carter_baker_electoral_reform_controversy_414.htm
PARTISANS DISCUSS 'REFORM'
Questions surface regarding legitimacy of Baker-Carter election reform commission
By Larisa Alexandrovna | RAW STORY Staff
Advertisement
Serious questions of conservative partisanship have surfaced surrounding an electoral reform commission co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and erstwhile Secretary of State James Baker, RAW STORY has learned.

The Carter Center denies any involvement with the Baker-Cater Commission on Federal Election Reform even though they are on much of its literature. Carter stepped down from the center in March.

Perhaps most significant, however, is the partisan makeup of those on the Commission's panels. In a situation reminiscent of GOPUSA and Gannongate, a recent election reform group has seemingly sprouted from nowhere and in short order landed a seat at the table.

As revealed earlier by Brad Friedman of Bradblog.com, The American Center for Voting Rights appeared on the election reform scene less than a month ago. It is led by GOP operative and election attorney Mark F. Hearne and who also managed to appear as the only voting rights group to Rep. Bob Ney's (R-OH) recent House Administrative Committee hearings on Ohio voting issues during the 2004 election.
<MORE>

[keepthemhonest]

6. Hey Tom

the last two times I sent the first group of emails from the Aol,netscape section it did not like the Hardall@bellsouth

and voted for greates thread

[keepthemhonest]

7. done

[FreedomAngel82]

8. Thanks

I did it.

:kick:

[tommcintyre]

48. Thanks for all your support. :D I'll be "cleaning" it after this blast is

finished. It needs it every few months.

[Wilms]

9. kick n/t

[JackRiddler]

10. keep this kicked

and do what it says! The tip of the iceberg is peeking!

[thecai]

11. Kicked To Kick....

...the corrupt's A$$ES!

[thecai]

12. Another Kick n/t

[Wilms]

13. kick n/t

[Melodybe]

14. kick

Bush in Jail what a beautiful picture.

[thecai]

21. Bush Looks So Cute

in orange jumpsuits!

[tommcintyre]

49. I visualize the schrub, Cheney and Rove doing the "perp walk" often

So thanks for this.

[hiley]

71. love that

best picture I have ever seen !

[autorank]

15. Thank you so much. This is great stuff.

:kick: :kick:

[keepthemhonest]

16. kick it

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :toast:

[Lizzie Borden]

17. KICK!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[tinonedown]

18. BEST thread of the month!!!!!!!!!

GREAT thread - THANK YOU.
And......done. Keep this one bumped.

[tommcintyre]

32. Thanks. Things are really starting to hop!

:bounce:
:bounce:
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[brettdale]

19. Okay

Kick Kick Kick

[Wilms]

20. n/t

[Robeysays]

23. i wish n/t

[tommcintyre]

43. Welcome Robeysays !

Thanks for pitching in! :D

[AuntiBush]

37. Oh, It would be a Blessing!

Nice Pict.

Now, time to copy/paste and kick for morning crowd! Keep this post re-running!

[tommcintyre]

50. Damn! I can't completely make out the date on that mag ;)

I hope it's July, 2005.

[Wilms]

53. 2004. But that's ok. He'll leave. n/t

[hiley]

72. great and love

cheney begins prison term !

[Al-CIAda]

22. kick

[Wilms]

24. n/t

[oasis]

25. kick for America.

[tommcintyre]

26. Thanks for all the response! Over 10,000 individual emails sent so far!

WE need the media to know what's really happening now. And this is a GREAT START!

:bounce:

[Wilms]

28. kick n/t

[SlowDownFast]

29. Done and Kicked.

[Wilms]

30. kicked AND Done. n/t

[Wilms]

31. Thoop n/t

[Wilms]

33. .

[Wilms]

34. kicked AND Done. n/t

[oasis]

35. kick

[ClayZ]

36. kick

:kick:

[Vektor]

38. kick n/t

[AuntiBush]

39. Done! All 4 Groups On their Way.

Kick this and keep it going! Nice job Tom. Really appreciate it.

[AuntiBush]

40. BLOOMBERG'S refusing to accept them!

Bloomberg's the only 2 refusing acceptance.

Recipient address: [email protected]
Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address
Diagnostic code: smtp;550 No such address

AND

Original-recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Final-recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0 (Remote SMTP server has rejected address)

Edited for added denial: [email protected]

And:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected] out of office.

[tommcintyre]

42. Thanks for doing this, it will save me time when "cleaning" up

Due to turnover, etc. it must be done occasionally (last time January). I will do it after this blast is complete.

Thanks again for the help. :D

[Wilms]

41. .

[tommcintyre]

44. UPDATE:

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MSNBC/REUTERS: Washington state suit wants vote machines opened
SEATTLE, April 12 - “An electronic voting machine maker is battling a voter rights advocate in Washington State who wants to force the company to reveal the machines' software blueprint.”
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/reuters04-12-165037...
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Has been replaced with the folllowing (at the request of the plantiff - DU's Landshark)

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MSNBC: Suit filed on county vote machines
A contract between Snohomish County and a private firm is unconstitutional, two Everett men argue in court action. By Jerry Cornfield

SEATTLE - Two Everett men filed suit Thursday to void the contract between Snohomish County and the maker of its electronic voting machines, claiming the deal illegally shifts control of vote counting from the public to a private company.

Paul Lehto and John Wells allege in their suit that the contract between Snohomish County and Sequoia Voting Systems violates the U.S. Constitution by altering the right of citizens to an open and transparent election.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7429900
For more info, click on April 7 lawsuit links at http://www.votersunite.org
Contact the plaintiff at [email protected]
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[tommcintyre]

46. CORRECTION:

The line:

"In just four mouse clicks, (and a little copying/pasting) tell 391 national media contacts to Cover the NATIONAL ELECTION REFORM CONFERENCE."

should read:

"In just four mouse clicks, (and a little copying/pasting) tell 391 national media contacts to Cover the BREAKING ELECTION FRAUD/REFORM STORIES."

No big deal. It's NOT part of the blaster letter.

[oasis]

51. kick

[oasis]

52. kick

[AmBlue]

54. WHAT A FEELING!!!

Thank you, thank you for that. DONE!!!

AND KICK!!!

[AmBlue]

55. How many e-mails have been sent now???

How can you tell???

[tommcintyre]

58. Over 17,000 individual emails sent so far

I can easily estimate the minimum sent. In each blast, a tracking email is sent back to me (unless someone chooses to optionally remove it). So I just have to count the number of emails that are sent to the tracking alias, times the number of media sent to, and voila! I have a conservative estimate (since I'm sure some do remove the tracking em).

[Wilms]

56. kick n/t

[oasis]

57. kick

[tommcintyre]

59. After you send, click this button to ask your friends to do it too

Ask the people you know to:

Tell the National Media to Cover the BREAKING ELECTION FRAUD/REFORM STORIES

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

[Wilms]

60. kick n/t

[Wilms]

61. kick n/t

[oasis]

62. kick

[deacon]

63. I wish they had something like this to cover and investigate Gannon

Done.

[tommcintyre]

64. If anyone does the research and submits the copy, I will build/host

That's how the last blasters were done. (National Election Reform Conf and Blogcall2 - Clint Curtis). For a non-election fraud/reform related blaster, you would have to promote it too.

[oasis]

75. Thanks for all of your hard work.

[tommcintyre]

65. Velvet Revolution: Plans Presence at April 18TH "Public Hearing"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x357438

Things are getting interesting.

[Wilms]

66. kick n/t

[mantis49]

67. That was really fun!

First time I've done the media blaster thing........wasn't sure how it worked, but now I know.

I think I'll be doing in more :)

[Andy_Stephenson]

68. Done and

:kick:

[hiley]

69. Kick !

:kick: Ready for that fight every day !

[jdj]

70. well, this certainly explains the Carter Baker story in LBN

couldn't figure that one out til I saw this link.

[Wilms]

73. .

[oasis]

74. kick

[Wilms]

76. kick n/t

[Wilms]

77. kick n/t

[tommcintyre]

78. UPDATE: Over 22,000 individual emails sent out so far!

Congratulations DU!

The record (post- Jan 6th) is just over 30,000 (for the Bradblog/Clint Curtis Blogcall2 in early march).

We just passed the 19,000+ sent out for the National Election Conference last weekend!).

Will we set a new record??? Stay tuned...

[Wilms]

79. kick n/t

[tommcintyre]

80. ADDED: RAW STORY - Carter Election Reform Commission

Questions surface regarding legitimacy of Baker-Carter election reform commission. By Larisa Alexandrovna

"Serious questions of conservative partisanship have surfaced surrounding an electoral reform commission co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and erstwhile Secretary of State James Baker, RAW STORY has learned."

“Perhaps most significant, however, is the partisan makeup of those on the Commission's panels. In a situation reminiscent of GOPUSA and Gannongate, a recent election reform group has seemingly sprouted from nowhere and in short order landed a seat at the table."

"After seeing the full map (which will be published this evening), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), who held Congressional hearings on Ohio’s election irregularities and fueled the effort for the Ohio electoral challenge, issued the following statement Thursday.
“These connections truly are astounding,” Conyers said. “It apparently wasn't enough that Republican officials helped sway the election in favor of Bush—now they've even created a phony voting rights group to combat the real work that progressives are doing to make sure that every vote is counted.”
http://rawstory.com/exclusives/alexandrovna/carter_baker_electoral_reform_controversy_414.htm
(Map: ) http://rawstory.com/exclusives/map_conservative_ties_raw_story_415.htm

NEWS RELEASE: APRIL 15, 2005 COALITION OF ELECTORAL REFORM GROUPS CALL FOR JAMES BAKER'S RESIGNATION FROM ELECTORAL REFORM COMMISSION
Also Call for Baker Cronies and Voting Machine Representatives To Step Down as Well
PLAN PRESENCE AT APRIL 18TH "PUBLIC HEARING"
http://www.velvetrevolution.us/content/electoralreform/BakerCarterComm_PressRelease_041505.php

[Window]

81. WOW!

Done & kick!

[Wilms]

82. kick n/t

[tommcintyre]

83. kick for the record! n/t

[tommcintyre]

84. In a few minutes the Raw Story reporter will talk about the Commission

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x357887

[Wilms]

85. kick n/t

[DearAbby]

86. First set mailed and Kickin this....Let's get to work!

Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaah ;;;Dean Yell::: :applause:

[oasis]

88. kickin' it.

[Wilms]

87. n/t

[tommcintyre]

89. C' mon GD... Show 'em! WE'RE MAD AS HELL...

and we're NOT gonna take it anymore! :mad:

[Wilms]

90. kick n/t

[Wilms]

91. .

[DearAbby]

92. Kick

:kick:

[tommcintyre]

93. Just did a count... we are actually tied with just over 30,000

Shoot! And I don't have paper records to do a recount.

So please would a few more of you "DU Warriors" send the blast so this doesn't wind up in the SCOTUS - cuz I ain't conceding early! ;)

[Roland99]

94. Just did all four!

[tommcintyre]

95. Way to go! Ya put us over the top! n/t

[InfoMinister]

96. Yahoo's Service Will Only Allow One Set Every Hour

It'll send out the first set but it says it'll take an hour before I can even send anymore e-mail.

[tommcintyre]

97. Thanks for the effort!

How about setting up four Yahoo accts? Just kidding. ;)

I'm glad you're doing it. :D

[Wilms]

98. Thoop! n/t

[Wilms]

99. .

[Wilms]

100. 100

Oh, my.

[Al-CIAda]

101. kick

[Wilms]

102. kick n/t

[LeftofU]

103. kick

[Sewsojm]

104. Sent all Four

Kick

[Wilms]

105. kick n/t

[Trillo]

106. Sent 4 emails plus another one requesting my e-list join the effort! (n/t)