I'm building a Senate email blaster - I need some help please

[tommcintyre]

I'm doing this to help out on this issue:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x73567

I have all 100 email addresses now; and I will now build something similar to this:
http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity.htm


What I need is:
1 - Sample emails for people to send to the Senators.

2 - Various email subject lines for them to choose.

I will list various choices of both (see this link for an example of what I will build:

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

<Note the "Reserved for alternative messages" link on this page:
http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity2_01.htm

I'm going to go build the pages now. I will check back later for any copy posted here.

<btw: This is not meant to replace people sending individual emails, only to supplement it. As one poster put it,"Correspondence from constituents usually gets a Congressperson's attention first, but a flooded inbox tends to draw attention too."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=203&topic_id=73794&mesg_id=73881

Also, if there is enough interest, and as time permits, I will build something that will make it easier for individuals to send emails to their own Senator.>

[IAMREALITY]

1. Woohooooo!!!

I'll see what I can come up with later, but for now I'm glad you're doing this. I recommended it in the other thread and am glad (though it was disagreed with over there) that someone else shares that view.

[tommcintyre]

2. Glad you like it.. If you have time, could you also...

PM some of the people from the other similar threads that may want to participate in creating this? Or whatever you think will help "spread the word". The more time I spend here trying to get the word out, the less time put in on the constructing of this, so all help is appreciated.

Thanks

[Paligal]

3. A possible letter to senate

Dear Senator:

I urge you to join Representatives John Conyers, Jr., Jerrold Nadler, Robert Wexler, and others in Congress, by demanding an investigation into the possible election fraud that took place on November 2nd. Further, should widespread election anomalies be proven beyond a doubt, Senators must band together and support those in Congress in contesting the results. Certainly, as a politician, you realize that our system of voting is the basis of our democratic society, and ensures that you will be elected to office if you run a good campaign and the people vote for you. Even the mere fact that doubts have now arisen as to the validity of the election on November 2nd warrants a federal investigation to ensure that our democratic system has not been compromised. Particularly with regard to Diebold’s Optiscan machines, the results vary widely from data about voter registration, expected results, AND exit polls. Paired with the fact that both Diebold and ES&S (the companies that supply most of the country’s voting machines) are strongly partisan, the questionable results demand a much closer look at the integrity of the election. Diebold has written and admitted to a documented letter to President Bush to assure him that the company would “deliver” Ohio to him, and has documented accounts of encouraging election officials to utilize holes in software security. Their software has been proven repeatedly to be easily hacked into. The voters have NO paper trail to validate their votes. We therefore, can only rely on you, our official voice in government, to act on our behalf and ensure the integrity of our democratic process.

Please ask yourself if you are willing to accept ALL of the following points without further investigation:
To believe that Bush won the election, you must also believe that the exit polls were wrong; that Zogby's 5pm election day calls for Kerry winning Ohio and Florida were wrong (he was exactly right in his 2000 final poll); that Harris' last-minute polling for Kerry was wrong (he was exactly right in his 2000 final poll); that incumbent rule #1 - undecideds break for the challenger - was wrong; That the 50% rule - an incumbent doesn't do better than his final polling - was wrong; That the approval rating rule - an incumbent with less than 50% approval will most likely lose the election - was wrong; that it was just a coincidence that the exit polls were correct where there was a paper trail and incorrect (+5% for Bush) where there was no paper trail; that the surge in new young voters had no positive effect for Kerry; that Kerry did worse than Gore against an opponent who lost the support of scores of Republican newspapers who were for Bush in 2000; that voting machines made by Republicans with no paper trail and with no software publication, which have been proven by thousands of computer scientists to be vulnerable in scores of ways, were not tampered with in this election.

If you have any doubts, please fight for us, the people who trust you to act for the people in government. Force this issue to light and demand that our votes be verified for accuracy. And if widespread election fraud is proven beyond a doubt as a result, contest the election. We can’t do it without you, and it is your job to serve us as our voice. After all, if this problem isn't immediately addressed, next time, it could be your own seat which is stolen.

Sincerely,

Voter

[tommcintyre]

5. Good job Paligal :D

I'll use it.

[gorbal]

4. Good idea

Keep it up. good letter too. I think we should mention the fact that the voting machines have been knonw not to work and the fact that the weren't propery checked in our e-mails. People are just kissing away our Democracy and our way of life way to easily.

[New Earth]

6. i just noticed something

the punctuation in that letter is not coming out right.

[tommcintyre]

8. Go ahead, edit it Faye.. This is a group effort.

The more the better.

[tommcintyre]

7. "I think we should mention the fact that..." great! Write it up! :)

We can have more than one letter. I will simply rotate them. Actually, it looks better with more variety.

[New Earth]

9. fixed?

Dear Senator:

I urge you to join Representatives John Conyers, Jr., Jerrold Nadler, Robert Wexler, and others in Congress, by demanding an investigation into the possible election fraud that took place on November 2nd. Further, should widespread election anomalies be proven beyond a doubt, Senators must band together and support those in Congress in contesting the results. Certainly, as a politician, you realize that our system of voting is the basis of our democratic society, and ensures that you will be elected to office if you run a good campaign and the people vote for you. Even the mere fact that doubts have now arisen as to the validity of the election on November 2nd warrants a federal investigation to ensure that our democratic system has not been compromised. Particularly with regard to Diebold's Optiscan machines, the results vary widely from data about voter registration, expected results, AND exit polls. Paired with the fact that both Diebold and ES&S (the companies that supply most of the country's voting machines) are strongly partisan, the questionable results demand a much closer look at the integrity of the election. Diebold has written and admitted to a documented letter to President Bush to assure him that the company would deliver� Ohio to him, and has documented accounts of encouraging election officials to utilize holes in software security. Their software has been proven repeatedly to be easily hacked into. The voters have NO paper trail to validate their votes. We therefore, can only rely on you, our official voice in government, to act on our behalf and ensure the integrity of our democratic process.

Please ask yourself if you are willing to accept ALL of the following points without further investigation:
To believe that Bush won the election, you must also believe that the exit polls were wrong; that Zogby's 5pm election day calls for Kerry winning Ohio and Florida were wrong (he was exactly right in his 2000 final poll); that Harris' last-minute polling for Kerry was wrong (he was exactly right in his 2000 final poll); that incumbent rule #1 - undecideds break for the challenger - was wrong; That the 50% rule - an incumbent doesn't do better than his final polling - was wrong; That the approval rating rule - an incumbent with less than 50% approval will most likely lose the election - was wrong; that it was just a coincidence that the exit polls were correct where there was a paper trail and incorrect (+5% for Bush) where there was no paper trail; that the surge in new young voters had no positive effect for Kerry; that Kerry did worse than Gore against an opponent who lost the support of scores of Republican newspapers who were for Bush in 2000; that voting machines made by Republicans with no paper trail and with no software publication, which have been proven by thousands of computer scientists to be vulnerable in scores of ways, were not tampered with in this election.

If you have any doubts, please fight for us, the people who trust you to act for the people in government. Force this issue to light and demand that our votes be verified for accuracy. And if widespread election fraud is proven beyond a doubt as a result, contest the election. We can't do it without you, and it is your job to serve us as our voice. After all, if this problem isn't immediately addressed, next time, it could be your own seat which is stolen.

[tommcintyre]

10. Good team work! When we act together, we are stronger! n/t

Thanks for your effort, now I better get back to building this. :D

[tommcintyre]

11. Don't forget. Subject lines too.

Often, in mass mailings, the email is not read, but the subject line always is. The more variety we have, the more impact it will have.
Keep up the good work.
:)

[New Earth]

12. i'm ready to send that letter, but i need a headline

nevermind i get it. we are helping you come up with it. lol

[Paligal]

13. Petition?

Maybe we can also forward this via e-mail and ask people to forward it to senators. Try to get the exponential thing going and flood in-boxes. Thanks for the edit, by the way. I wrote it up really quickly and didn't really proofread it. The last part, I also need to change "the people who trust you to act for the people" to "the people who trust you to act for the American public" or something to that effect. It just sounds weird. Has anyone come up with a subject line yet?

[tommcintyre]

14. Good Idea!

Check out this page. It does exactly what you are suggesting (but for the national media mailing instead). If you don't mind making a second version of your letter, geared toward motivating/explaining to others why they should email their Senators too, I will be glad to include it on a page like this:
http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity_emailothers.htm

OK, back to work. I'll try to have a workable version of this project up by the time you all get up tomorrow, since it is still early here in Hawaii.

[Paligal]

17. Gotta go to work, but...

How about we just add to the beginning:

Dear friend,
In light of overwhelming new evidence that the recent election was tampered with by way of computerized tabulators, we urge you to join us in asking our Senators to contest the election if fraud is proven beyond a doubt. While several Congress members have already pledged to take action, an official contest to an election requires the signature of at least one member of the Senate. Please forward the following e-mail to members of the Senate to stress the importance of our democracy and ask that they do the right thing if it is conclusively shown that this election was fraudulently manipulated.

[tommcintyre]

15. OK, it's up, and mostly ready.

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

Some of the em's are bad. I'll try to find new ones tomorrow.

Also, could anyone write the email to friends letter?

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

I'm really tired. It's after 4am here, so I'm going to bed.

[gorbal]

16. OKay... Blasty Blasty.

Ready Senators? You better be...here comes gorbal into your inbox!!!