Contacts, Actions, Talking Points for Votergate Efforts by 'We Do Not Concede'

Welcome to the WE DO NOT CONCEDE Coalition. This is a
nonpartisan grassroots campaign reaching out to Americans concerned about voter fraud in Election 2004. Citizens are urged not to concede their vote in this election, and to prepare to mobilize in order to let our politicians and the international world know this time OUR VOICES will not be silenced.

There are actions taking place all around the country. We'll try to keep
you informed of those actions and even recommend a few of our own.

For continued updates, visit http://www.donotconcede.com

DO NOT CONCEDE YOUR VOTE!

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People and Agencies to Contact:
1) Your two Senators & elected Representative - here is the main
switchboard number for the House and Senate:
202-224-3121

2) Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader:
202-225-4965

3) These members are allegedl/reportedly looking into the issue - urge
them to introduce a bill to investigate voter fraud:
Rep. Henry Waxman of CA - 202-225-3976
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of OH - 202-225-7032
Rep. Dennis Kucinich of OH - 202-225-5871
Rep. Tim Ryan of OH - 202-225-5261

4) Democratic & Republican Members of the House Judiciary Committee:
Rep. Robert Wexler of FL - 202-225-3001
Rep. Maxine Waters of CA - 202-225-2201
Rep. Chabot of OH (R)- 202-225-2216
Rep. King of IA (R)- 202-225-4426

5) Democrat & Republican Members (call both) of the Senate Judiciary
Committee:
Sen. Patrick Leahy of VT - 202-224-4242
Sen. Ted Kennedy of MA - 202-224-4543
Sen. Joe Biden of DE - 202-224-5042
Sen. Russ Feingold of WI - 202-224-5323
Sen. Charles Schumer of NY - 202-224-6542
Sen. Arlen Specter of PA (R) - 202-224-4254 (thank him also for having
urged the Pres. to not choose anti-abortion judges and taking the body
blows)
Sen. Mike DeWine of OH (R) - 202-224-2315
Sen. Chuck Grassley of IA (R)- 202-224-3744

6) Federal Elections Commission:

Audit Division
Joseph Stoltz, Assistant Staff Director
Telephone: 800-424-9530 (press 0, then ext. 1200)

Inspector General
Lynne McFarland, Inspector General
Telephone: 800-424-9530 (press 0, then ext. 1015)7) The news media - we
have to put
pressure on them: (this is all I could find for now)

NBC/MSNBC- Nightly [at] NBC.com & viewerservices [at] msnbc.com
CNN- http://www.cnn.com/feedback/
CBS- 212-258-6000 - 60II [at] cbsnews.com, evening [at] cbsnews.com,
48hours [at] cbsnews.com,
earlyshow [at] cbs.com

8) Call the Secretary of State's office in the state of OH and FL - Tell
them that you demand under the HAVA law to have all votes counted -
especially the absentee, military and all provisional ballots counted and
verified - tell them you suspect foul-play.

Phone # to OH Sec. of State Kenneth Blackwell's Office: toll free -
1-877-767-6446 or email: election [at] sos.state.oh.us
or 614-466-2585

Phone # to FL Sec. of State Glenda Hood's Office: 850-245-6500

9) Donate $5 to Bev Harris at http://www.blackboxvoting.org - she has been
filing 1000's of information requests under the "FOIA-Freedom of
Information Act" to account for the various voting machines across the
country.

10) [UPDATE - Ralph's efforts are already underway, you can send money, but don't email or fax or call him].

Email or Fax Ralph Nader - Yep, you heard me, good ole Ralph....here's
his opportunity to make up for any feelings of bad will after the 2000
election and the current one. Ralph has been a lifelong advocate for us,
the consumer and little guy and he is actually in the unique position
right now to do something since he was a Presidential candidate and has the
ability to be listened to. He has actually already filed a challenge in
NH (not that he is looking to overturn the results, but because he can
prove there may have been bigger problems and he qualifies there as having
been
on the ballot). http://www.votenader.org/media_press/index.php?cid=400 Urge
him to do this across the board on a national level. Heck, the media seemed
to have such a lovefest with him before the election, could they possibly
ignore him now? Contact Ralph at - 202-265-4000

11) Call/email Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center: carterweb [at] emory.edu or
call at (800) 550-3560. Former President Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center
are considered to be the most experienced in the election process and
conducting fair democratic elections - urge him to get involved and
investigate possible fraud and
the unexplainable discepancies throughout the election involving the
computer voting machines, especially in swing states.

In an email I sent you last night, I used the F-word - FRAUD and mentioned
to you that I felt strongly that there is a lot of mounting evidence that
this election was not clean. I say that not only out of a result of my
observations while out in the field as a poll watcher in the key
battleground state of Ohio, I say it with the knowledge and information of
reports that have been circulating around the country in various voting
precincts involving irregularities and problems with the voting machines and
numbers not matching up with the exit polls or actual numbers of registered
voters in various precincts. I've been busy researching this issue and
compiling for you below some details of these reports and where you can get
more info:

To believe that Bush won the election, you must also believe:

1- That the exit polls were WRONG...(remember - they have been used for
over a decade and considered reliable)

2- That Zogby's 5pm election day calls for Kerry winning OH, FL were WRONG.
He was within a less than 1/2 % point margin of error in his 2000 final
poll and previous polls for other elections.

3- That Harris Poll last minute polling for Kerry was WRONG. They were also
within a 1/2% point margin of error in their 2000 final poll.

4- The Incumbent Rule #I (that undecideds primarily break at the end for
the challenger)was WRONG.

5- The 50% Rule was WRONG (that an incumbent doesn't do better than his
final polling)

6- The Approval Rating Rule was WRONG (that an incumbent with less than 50%
approval will most likely lose the election)

7- That Journalist Greg Palast was WRONG when he said that even before the
election, 1 million votes were stolen from Kerry. He was the ONLY reporter
to break the fact that 90,000 Florida blacks were disnfranchised in 2000.

8- 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.

9- That the surge in new young voters had NO positive effect for Kerry,
even though it was the largest number of youth voters 18-29 ever and a huge
jump from 2000 and they were over 55% in favor of Kerry.

10- That Bush BEAT 99-1 mathematical odds in winning the election.

11- That Kerry did WORSE than Gore against an opponent who LOST the support
of SCORES of Republican newspapers who were for Bush in 2000.

12- That Bush did better than an 18 national poll average which showed him
tied with Kerry at 47. In other words, Bush got 80% of the undecided vote
to end up with a 51-48 majority - when ALL professional pollsters agree
that the undecided vote ALWAYS goes to the challenger.

13- 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. Some Examples: (There are many more, but I won't list them
all here - this
is to give you an idea)

- The City of Gahanna in Ohio discovered a discrepancy that gave 4,000
votes to George Bush. After media scrutiny, city officials have admitted
to an electronic "glitch" that caused the problem.

- In Broward County, FL, errors in software code caused a referendum on
gambling to be completely overturned. The error caused totals to count
backwards after reaching a ceiling of 32,500 votes. The problem existed in
the 2002 election as well however the issue was never resolved by the
manufacturer of the electronic voting machine.

- In North Carolina, a Craven County district logged 11,283 more votes
than voters and actually overturned the results of a regional race.

For more info, go to: http://www.blackboxvoting.org

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1106-30.htm

There are key people right now working behind the scenes on this...but
meanwhile, we the people at a a grassroots level need to start making the
corporate media pay attention to the "Real Story" not the "Moral Values"
headlines and stories being featured on the news currently including the
"Boy Genius - Karl Rove" Cover stories on CNN and Fox.

We need to support those that are pursuing this issue to reveal the truth
and get an inquiry going. If any of you remember Michael Moore's movie
Fahrenheit 9/11, you'll remember the scene where the Black Congressional
Caucus members stood up in a joint session of Congress in 2000 and asked for
a single Senator to back them in an investigation of "Voter Fraud and
Disenfranchisement". Many who saw the film felt ashamed at that moment and
many didn't even know this had happened. Well, its happening all over
again....History has a funny way of repeating itself if we don't pay
attention and learn. Currently there are several members of Congress and
the House Judiciary Committee that have requested the GAO (General
Accounting Office) to implement an inquiry into computer voting machine
problems
(http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/gaoinvestvote2004ltr11504.pdf).

There are also folks across the country at the grassroots level filing
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to investigate these problems
immediately. One of the biggest driving individuals behind this effort is
a woman by the name of Bev Harris from Seattle, WA. (her site
is http://www.blackboxvoting.org). I became familiar with Bev Harris when
I saw her on MSNBC give a demonstration to Howard Dean on how easy it was
to "hack" the central tabulator computer for these computer voting systems
and change the results. She did it in less than 2 minutes and in a way that
no one monitoring the system could tell. I later saw her demonstrate this
at a presentation here in Marin County this year. Sadly, no one seemed to
pay
attention, including in the Democratic Party and now, here we are after one
of the biggest elections of our lifetime and with problems surfacing all
over the place with no answers or accountability. Worse is that no one is
covering what is perhaps the biggest story of all - the fraud involved in
this election.

This is not the "Dems" being sore losers...this is real stuff folks. Real
problems. If this issue and fraud isn't addressed, our democracy and our
votes in the future are dead. Won't even be a point in voting.

(author anonymous)