[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] Green Party VP candidate, Pat LaMarche, to speak at Boston Rally Jan. 3 on election fraud

Fri Dec 31 20:49:52 PST 2004

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>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
>  December 30, 2004            
>COALITION URGES CONGRESS TO ACT AGAINST ELECTION FRAUD
>AT RALLY MONDAY EVE  IN FANEUIL HALL
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>Massachusetts Elector Tom Barbera and local activists with the 
>Coalition Against Election Fraud (CAEF) will call on members of 
>Congress to take action in response to election fraud at a Rally for 
>the Republic, to be held inside of Faneuil Hall on Monday, January 3 
>at 7:00 p.m.   Organizers invite all those concerned about 
>preserving our voting rights to gather at 6:30 p.m. at the State 
>House entrance to Boston Common for a march to the indoor Rally at 
>Faneuil Hall.
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>The Coalition is part of a nationwide grassroots movement to urge 
>members of Congress to object on January 6 to the Electoral College 
>vote from states such as Ohio, Florida and New Mexico, where 
>mounting evidence of election violations has resulted in questions 
>about the outcome of the 2004 presidential election.  This event 
>coincides with Rallies for the Republic planned for early next week 
>in cities across the country, including Columbus, Ohio, Washington, 
>D.C. and San Francisco.  Organizers aim to influence members of 
>Congress to vote NOT to certify the Electoral College votes from 
>states where the election results are in question, and/or to delay 
>the vote certification entirely due to the need to complete 
>investigations and recounts currently underway.
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>Coalition members are currently lobbying a national list of 
>Senators, including Massachusetts Senators Edward Kennedy and John 
>Kerry, to urge them to vote against certification of Electors' votes 
>from states such as Ohio, where the election results are being 
>challenged in court.  Several Coalition activists will head to the 
>U.S. Capitol early next week to present their case in person to 
>Senators before Congress reconvenes on January 6.  Congress-woman 
>Maxine Waters of California, Chair of the Democratic Caucus Special 
>Committee on Election Reform, stated this week that she, along with 
>other members of the House of Representatives, will be challenging 
>the seating of the Ohio electors.
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>The Monday Rally, the D.C. Delegation, and a daily vigil outside of 
>the Boston home of Senator John Kerry are among the Coalition's 
>strategies to mount a Constitutional Challenge to the Electoral 
>College vote in response to increasing evidence of election fraud. 
>They cite concerns about discrepancies between vote tallies and the 
>number of registered voters in specific precincts; inequities in the 
>number of voting machines available at highly Democratic polling 
>places; and widespread disenfranchisement of voters through vote 
>suppression tactics targeted largely at African Americans and 
>college students.
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>"We do not have to suffer another four years of an illegitimate 
>presidency since the Constitution and Federal law set out how to 
>challenge unlawfully acquired electoral votes," according to David 
>Lytel, a leader in the 2000 and the current challenges to the 
>legitimacy of the Florida and now the Ohio electoral votes.  Lytel, 
>the keynote speaker at Monday's Rally, explains that the U.S. 
>Constitution has provisions mandating specific penalties be invoked 
>by Congress if the right to vote is 'in any way abridged.'"  
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>"There are considerably more reported cases of vote suppression, 
>fraudulent vote casting and fraudulent vote counting than George W. 
>Bush's margin of victory in Ohio and in Florida," Lytel continues. 
>"In Warren County (Ohio), for example, officials closed the vote 
>counting to outside observers for the first time anyone can 
>remember, on the [alleged] advice of the national Department of 
>Homeland Security, which now denies it. Warren County has nothing in 
>it Al Qaeda cares about, but it is the single most important county 
>in the nation to Bush's re-election, being the last polling place in 
>the state to close and providing a third of the margin he needed to 
>claim victory on election night.
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>"There is overwhelming evidence that the misadministration of the 
>election was non-random.  It is literally impossible that chance 
>could produce errors that all point in the same direction, giving 
>votes to Bush,"  states Lytel, who asserts that exit polls were most 
>likely accurate, showing that "considerably more people went to the 
>polls that day to vote for John Kerry" than shown in the vote counts.
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>The media has implied that alleged fraud in the 2004 election 
>amounts to "merely random 'glitches' or 'irregularities' and that 
>the only recourse is to fix the system in time for the next 
>election," according to Lytel, who is quick to add, "they are wrong 
>on both counts... The misadministration of the election was 
>deliberate and purposeful and we have
>more than one course of action to return the nation to the proper 
>path right now."
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>COALITION AGAINST ELECTION FRAUD - PRESS RELEASE, PAGE 2
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>Also to speak at the Rally are John Bonifaz, General Counsel of the 
>National Voting Rights Institute and Co-counsel for Presidential 
>Candidates David Cobb and Michael Badnarik in their demand for a 
>meaningful recount of
>all of the votes cast for President in Ohio; Jonathan Simon, a 
>political survey research analyst who collaborated  with U. Penn. 
>professor and statistician Steven Freeman, PhD on exit poll analysis 
>of the 2004 election; Tom Barbera, a Waltham Elector whose motion 
>asking for the investigation and remedy of election violations was 
>passed unanimously by all twelve Mass. Electors; Faye Morrison, an 
>Ayer Selectwoman who spent six months campaigning and working with 
>Election Protection in several states; Pat LaMarche, the Green Party 
>2004 vice-presidential candidate, and Donna Palermino, a local 
>attorney who will speak on the legal aspects of the challenge. 
>Local citizens who campaigned in Ohio, Florida and other states will 
>also share their own observations of vote suppression during the 
>2004 election.    Musical entertainment will be provided by area 
>folk musician Greg Greenway.
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>FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
>Heleni Thayre (617) 232-8180 or Robin Weingarten (617) 325-8224
>Coalition Against Election Fraud, www.caef.us
>caef at caef.us
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