12/10-13: Defend the Recounts! Demand Election Reform!

TAKE ACTION DEC. 10 – 13, 2004:

Defend the Recounts! Demand Election Reform!

PROTEST ELECTION VIOLATIONS IN STATE CAPITOLS: THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES ON 12/13

On Monday, December 13, the members of the Electoral College will meet in every
state capitol to cast their votes to elect the President and Vice-President of the
United States. We call on local groups to protest and make visible the many voting
rights violations and election irregularities which call into question the integrity
of the 2004 election – and to demand real reforms to protect, extend, and deepen
democracy.

HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO:

1 - Organize protests in the days leading up to the Dec. 13 meeting of the Electoral
College, and on December 13 itself:

* Demand that every vote be verified and counted in all states before the Electors
cast their votes!

* Call for the implementation of the Voter Bill of Rights, which details eleven
vital election reforms, including the abolition of the electoral college, a
guarantee of a voter-verified paper trail for all voting machines, replacement of
partisan oversight of elections with nonpartisan election commissions and
prevention of lawless vote suppression and voter intimidation. Deliver the Voter
Bill of Rights to your members of Congress and demand their support for these
reforms.

2 - Contact your state’s Electors to see if you can convince one or more of them to
join you at the protest to express their concerns about the state of our democracy.
A list of your state’s Electors should be available on your state’s secretary of
state website, or with your state’s election board.

3 - Alert local media, using the Electoral College vote as a news hook. We need to
break through the media whitewash of the disenfranchisement, vote suppression and
fraud that occurred in this election.

4 - List your protests events under “Directory of Local Actions” at http://www.Nov3.US.

This call to action is an initiative of the No Stolen Elections! Campaign and is
endorsed by CODEPINK, United for Peace and Justice, 51 Capital March, and others. We
are seeking national co-sponsors. If your national organization is willing to
co-sponsor this call, please contact us at ben [at] nov3.us

MORE INFORMATION:

Voter Bill of Rights: http://www.Nov3.US/billofrights

51 Capital March: http://www.51capitalmarch.com

Jesse Jackson's Something's Fishy in Ohio:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/jesse/cst-edt-jesse30.html

Election Day Problems:
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/12/01/voting_errors_tallied_nationwide/?rss_id=Boston.com%20/%20News%20/%20Politics%20/%20Recent%20Globe%20coverage


http://www.Nov3.US
NO STOLEN ELECTIONS!
"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