Ohio Public Hearings on Election Fraud, Disenfranchisement, Intimidation

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Reposted from http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x35483#35571

To: Urgent Response Network
From: No Stolen Elections! www.Nov3.US

ACT NOW: *Support efforts to make every vote count in Ohio
*Hold public hearings in your community
*Wake up the media

CALL TO ACTION:
TURN EVERY LIGHT ON OHIO

In Franklin County, Ohio, where 658 people voted, touchscreen machines gave Bush 4,258 votes. In one North Carolina county, the machines destroyed the votes of over 4500 people. These isolated revelations are joined daily by new reports casting light on suspect vote totals in New Hampshire, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Florida, and on the suppression of African American and youth votes in Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa, and many other states across the nation. The truth is breaking through.

We wish we had put out this call to action sooner. We apologize for the delay. In preparing for November 3rd, we knew that it was possible, even likely, that this election's legitimacy would remain an unknown for weeks after election day. What we did not expect was that Kerry would concede without waiting for the votes to be counted. Yet here we are. At this point, we can only move forward, and that means organizing from below, flushing out the truth, building momentum, day by day and week by week.

This campaign is only one stage in the long struggle for democratic
elections and the right to vote, yet this campaign is in one respect
unique: The legitimacy of our electoral system itself is at
question. Either a groundswell of public protest will force a full
investigation of the 2004 elections, the counting of every vote, and the establishment of an independent election authority and verified voting, or the American people will correctly conclude that they have no basis for faith in the fairness or integrity of our elections. We must act now.

1. KEEP THE SPOTLIGHT ON OHIO

a. Support and Attend the Hearings in Columbus

Organized by the Ohio Citizens Alliance for Secure Elections with support from the League of Pissed of Voters and many other national
organizations. Ohio voters, voting experts, and investigative journalists will be invited to present testimony for the public record documenting instances of voting irregularities and systematic voter suppression. The purpose of the hearings is to document the systemic undermining of our democratic process that occurred leading up to and on Nov 2, and assess how to respond to racial disenfranchisement and suppression of democratic
rights. See: www.indyvoter.org

Saturday November 13, 1-4 PM
New Faith Baptist Church
955 Oak Street, Columbus

Monday November 15, 6-9 PM,
Auditorium (Meeting Room A)
Courthouse, 373 S. High St., Columbus

b. Badger Blackwell ­ Call Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell’s office -- 614-466-2585 -- to demand that he do the following:

1. Count every single provisional ballot.
2. Release information about the number of “spoiled” ballots in Ohio.
3. Hand count the “spoiled” punch card ballots to make as many of these ballots count as possible.

c. Pressure Your Elected Officials - Call your U.S. senators and
representatives today. Insist that they join Rep. Conyers, Holt, Nadler, Scott, Watt, and Wexler in demanding a General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation of the tens of thousands of reported complaints regarding the 2004 election. Call 202-224-3121

2. ORGANIZE PUBLIC HEARINGS IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY

We must document what happened in this election so that we can use this information to push for needed reforms in our electoral system. We encourage local groups to sponsor public hearings during which citizens, voting experts, community leaders, investigative journalists and others can present testimony for the public record documenting instances of voting irregularities and systematic voter suppression. Involve as many groups and constituencies as possible ­ from civil rights and voting rights groups to public officials, journalists, youth groups, lawyers, and others. In addition to documenting what happened before, during and after November 2,
use these hearings as an opportunity to plan how to respond to these problems.

3. WAKE THE MEDIA

Despite growing evidence of disenfranchisement, suppression and fraud ­from lost votes to missing ballots to black-box machines with no paper trail, to a clear pattern of intimidation of voters ­ the establishment media has whitewashed the election. We must use media activist tactics to pressure the mainstream media to cover these issues. We urge you to organize a pressure campaign to push your local media outlets to cover the voting problems that occurred in your communities. Call and email the editors at your local newspaper and TV stations, provide them with copies of published media stories on voting irregularities, and demand that they investigate. You can also ask to meet with editorial board of the media outlet to make your case in person. If none of that works, take to the streets: Protest outside the media outlet and refuse to allow them to
censor this hugely important story.

MSNBC is the first major news media source to cover the
story. See: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677 / and
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6442857 /

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Watch for further news regarding No Stolen Elections! in the coming
week. Stay tuned.
www.Nov3.US

"This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." ~ Frederick Douglass, 1857

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