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DESCRIPTION:EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION!  VOTERGATE!!!     Are you anguished and enraged 
 by the outcome of the Nov 2 election?  Are you following the growing mass 
 of evidence of possible fraud and outright theft?  Lost votes, missing 
 ballots, black-box machines with no paper trail, a clear pattern of 
 intimidation of voters based on racial profiling, do you suspect a scandal 
 bigger than Watergate and far more meaningful than Monica is being 
 suppressed?     Was the 2004 election stolen?  Take action to defend 
 democracy and demand an investigation into electoral fraud!     We can stay 
 home and grumble and swear at the T.V. as Bush claims a mandate.  We can go 
 to work as usual, and pretend nothing is wrong.  Or we can come out and 
 take action.  Join us to protest the continuing disenfranchisement of 
 African-American, Latino and student voters, to demand a suspension of the 
 electoral college vote until there is a full and impartial investigation of 
 all the irregularities, and to defend democracy.      Wednesday, November 
 10,  Noon   San Francisco Federal Building,   450 Golden Gate, plaza side,  
 Rally and nonviolent civil disobedience.  --We demand a thorough, 
 impartial, and immediate investigation into electoral fraud, racially based 
 suppression of voters, and a full count of all provisional and absentee 
 ballots and ‘spoiled’ votes.     --We demand that the December 13 
 electoral college vote be suspended, if necessary, until these questions 
 are resolved.  The legitimacy of our government is compromised when the 
 integrity of our electoral system is in question,      Free and fair 
 elections are the basis of a democratic government. When the integrity of 
 the electoral system is in question, the government loses its legitimacy. 
 No recount could be as destabilizing as the widespread suspicion that the 
 Republicans have stolen a second election.     Here are just a few of the 
 serious concerns that have arisen:      --Around the world, exit polls are 
 used to verify that elections are free from fraud. Here in the US, polls in 
 precincts using computer voting machines with no paper trail were 
 consistently at odds with the reported outcome, while polls in precincts 
 using paper ballots matched the outcome.  --In Ohio, adequate numbers of 
 voting machines were not provided in African American and student 
 neighborhoods, causing voters hours of waiting time at the polls.  --1,074 
 instances of voter intimidation were reported to the Election Protection 
 Coalition.  --In Franklin County, Ohio, voting machines gave George Bush 
 3,893 votes in one precinct alone, far more than the number of registered 
 voters. In Craven County, North Carolina, a software error gave Bush 11,283 
 extra votes,  In Broward County, Florida, voting machines were discovered 
 to be counting backwards.  --In Ohio, the number of provisional ballots may 
 be far higher than Secretary of State Blackwell claims.  Absentee and 
 ‘spoiled’ ballots have not been counted—African American and Latino 
 voters are far more likely to have their ballots discarded.  --Purging of 
 supposed ‘felons’ in Florida and Colorado disproportionately targets 
 communities of color and may violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  --The 
 Diebold machines and central computer processors were never tested to 
 assure that they could not be hacked by outsiders.  --And much, much more!  
    It’s not too late!  The Watergate Scandal brought Nixon down long 
 after he took office.  We can counter the false perception of Bush’s 
 ‘mandate’, push the mainstream media into covering these serious 
 issues, maybe even put some spine into the Democrats, stand in alliance 
 with youth and communities of color, and protect the integrity of our vote. 
  Fighting for fair elections is vital—for the present and the future!     
 Reclaim the Commons  Democracy Defense Committee  
 http://www.beyondvoting.org       For more information on election fraud, 
 see:  http://www.blackboxvoting.org    
 http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php  http://www.gregpalast.com  
   http://www.democracyunderground.com    
 http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/08/51613.php
SUMMARY:Defend Democracy/Demand Disclosure
LOCATION:San Francisco Federal Building,   450 Golden Gate, plaza side,  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/08/51613.php
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