[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] GREEN RELEASE Greens to Dem Senators: Don't certify the 2004 election!

Wed Jan 5 23:05:54 PST 2005

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>GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
>http://www.gp.org
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>For Immediate Release:
>Wednesday, January 5, 2005
>
>Contacts:
>Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624,
>cell 202-487-0693, mclarty at greens.org
>Nancy Allen, Media Coordinator, 207-326-4576,
>nallen at acadia.net
>Blair Bobier, Cobb/LaMarche Campaign Media
>Director, 414-364-1596, b2 at bobierlaw.com
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>GREENS TO U.S. SENATE DEMOCRATS: CHALLENGE THE
>2004 ELECTION CERTIFICATION
>
>Rally calling on Congress to rejected tainted
>Electoral College votes: Thursday, January 6 in
>Washington, D.C., beginning in Lafayette Park at
>10 a.m.  More details at http://www.votecobb.org
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>WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders, citing
>Election Day and Ohio recount irregularities,
>challenged Democrats in the U.S. Senate to stand
>up in support of House members who register
>objections when Congress convenes on Thursday,
>January 6, to certify the 2004 presidential
>election results.
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>"If Senate Democrats remain silent on Thursday,
>and we see a repeat of their 2000 endorsement of
>a manipulated election, the Democratic Party will
>have abandoned all claims to be the opposition,"
>said Nan Garrett of the Georgia Green Party.
>"Americans who care about democracy and fair
>elections should understand such silence as an
>endorsement of the kind of Republican election
>engineering we witnessed in Ohio and of the Bush
>agenda."
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>2004 presidential candidates David Cobb (Green)
>and Michael Badnarik (Libertarian) filed for a
>recount in Ohio and New Mexico shortly after
>Election Day in November, and raised money for
>the recount fees.
>
>In Ohio, Greens, later joined by Rev. Jesse
>Jackson, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Rep. Dennis
>Kucinich (D-Oh.), Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), and
>other Democrats, uncovered widespread evidence of
>fraud, obstruction of legitimate votes
>(especially those cast by African Americans and
>young people), and computer voting machine
>manipulation.  They later charged that the Ohio
>recount was tainted by lack of cooperation,
>failure to follow consistent standards, and
>conflicts of interest by Republican election
>officials.
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>In January, 2001, when members of the
>Congressional Black Caucus objected to Congress's
>certification of the 2000 election, no Democratic
>U.S. Senator stood up to support them and compel
>an investigation.  Their acquiescence, in the
>wake of evidence of widespread vote fraud and
>obstruction in Florida, was documented in the
>first 15 minutes of Michael Moore's film
>Fahrenheit 9/11.
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>According to the Cobb/LaMarche Campaign and other
>Ohio recount observers:
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>-- The majority of county boards of elections in
>Ohio failed to choose the 3% recount sample on a
>random basis, in accordance with state procedure.
>
>-- "One [county board of elections] summoned the
>Triad company to bring a new machine to the board
>prior to resuming the recount. Another simply
>refused to conduct a full hand count. And in one
>county -- Hocking County, a technician from the
>Triad company visited the board of elections
>office prior to the start of the recount and
>tampered with the central tabulator machine; he
>advised board of elections officials on how to
>post a 'cheat sheet' on the wall so that the
>three percent hand count would match the machine
>count."  (John Bonifaz, General Counsel for the
>National Voting Rights Institute and Co-counsel
>for presidential candidates David Cobb and
>Michael Badnarik,
><http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0104-32.htm>)
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>-- Some counties blocked recount observers from
>inspecting rejected provisional or absentee
>ballots.
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>-- Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell --
>who chaired the Bush campaign in Ohio -- convened
>a meeting of Ohio electors before the recount was
>complete, in violation of state law.
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>On December 30, Mr. Cobb and Mr. Badnarik asked a
>federal district court in Columbus for an
>injunction against Mr. Blackwell's declaration of
>election results in Ohio until a second recount
>takes place that adheres to statewide uniform
>standards.
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>"If Senate Democrats allow George W. Bush's
>victory based on questionable numbers to stand,
>the Green Party will tell Democratic voters: you
>have wasted your votes and your campaign
>contributions on a party that will not defend
>your right to vote," said Marc Sanson, co-chair
>of the Green Party of the United States.
>
>"Regardless of whether the recount effort or a
>challenge from Senate Democrats overturns Mr.
>Bush's 2004 election, Americans need to see that
>corrupt elections will not be tolerated," added
>Mr. Sanson.  "At the very least, a challenge will
>advance some sorely needed reforms: auditable
>paper records of all computer votes; equitable
>distribution of election equipment; assurance
>that legitimate votes aren't obstructed; removal
>of biased partisan officials from supervision of
>vote counts; clean election laws.  This is what
>the Green Party stands for.  Where do the
>Democrats stand?"
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>MORE INFORMATION
>
>The Green Party of the United States
>http://www.gp.org
>1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404
>Washington, DC 20009.
>202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
>Fax 202-319-7193
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>2004 Cobb/LaMarche Campaign: news on the Ohio
>recount
>http://www.votecobb.org
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