U.S Citizens, please see the note and Petition at the end of this article.
Happy Holidays to each and every one of my many friends throughout the world. This is a time for reflection, to spend with friends and family and get ready for the New Year's challenges. Here in America we have one tremendous challenge that stands above all others. To do, like the Ukrainians did, set a false election aside and demand a new honest one where all votes will be visible and counted. Here, like in the Ukraine, the people voted one way but the votes were counted in another way. The people said "No" to four more years of Bush but his corporate, big business, warmongering supporters faked the election and are trying to claim he won, which he certainly did not as all exit polls the day of the election proved. We in America have three weeks from today to demand, and get a new, honest, verifiable election. Can we do it? I think we can, and will.
Below is a letter I'm sending to one hundred non-profit organizations who represent the best of America's thinkers and doers. I'm asking them to be the Paul Reveres of this country and save us from the corporations now in control attempting to turn America into the largest, most powerful fascist nation the world has ever experienced. The American people don't want that. They abhor it and won't stand for it. I urge each of you to spread this letter as far and as wide as you can. It is a matter of life and death. The life of a democracy that began the 4th of July 1776 but which will die on January 20th 2005 unless we demand and achieve a new, honest election before that date.
Happy Holidays
Ken
An Urgent Message From A Longtime Contributor
Dear Friends,
I have contributed financially to your group for many years, for I recognize the value of your efforts to create a better world. Now I am asking for your immediate help and support to avoid an imminent crisis facing us all.
America faces an apocalyptic moment. On November 2nd, at least thirty three million Americans (John Conyers estimates more than half of all who voted) lost their right to vote; their votes are indeterminate since they cannot be verified by hand count! This is an amazing and historically disastrous fact! Most of us were forced to vote on computers lacking paper evidence of who we voted for. Can any election be more than a sham under such a condition? Even worse, our votes could have been secretly and invisibly changed to favor George Bush or other Republican congressional candidates by the Republican owned business entities that secretly counted them. And all this after publicly promising their Republican associates they'd win! The bottom line: we really cannot know which Congressman, Senator or President was actually elected on November 2, for the vote-counting was able to be secretly and privately manipulated and then blocked from audit because there were no paper trails required. Thus, the entire national election of November 2 was fundamentally and uncorrectably flawed!
Equally alarming, most people in our country still have no idea their votes were able to be easily changed to make it appear that Bush won the presidency. Thousands of instances show this to have happened, first in Ohio where a recount of those votes that can be hand recounted is being blocked by a Republican Secretary of State (who is chair of Bush's election committee; shades of Florida's Katherine Harris) yet even eight weeks after November 2, the American public is not aware of the fraud of this election. It's become the greatest secret since the one, years ago kept at Alamogordo.
The problem we face is that this outrageous theft of our voting rights is being kept secret from the American people by the corporate TV, newspaper and magazine media! And if we don't find a way to immediately inform the public of what has happened, by the time the people discover it the second Bush administration we did not vote for will again have taken office, just as happened in 2000 when the Supreme Court illegally stopped the recounting of all the votes in Florida (where Gore was ultimately found, through belated vote counts, to have won that state and thus the Presidency).
But the outrageousness of this mass media silence doesn't stop there. It gets much, much uglier. Ever since November 2nd the corporate mass media has been feverishly manufacturing consent to validate the false election results by accepting them without question while issuing thousands of self serving opinion and news articles praising Bush (like Time magazine's Man Of The Year) and suggesting why Kerry “lost the election”, whereas all major exit polls the night of the election indicated Kerry had won, overwhelmingly.
Now, it's easy to understand why corporate America loves and wants Bush to win and are doing everything in their power to see he does, even illegally. He maximizes their profitability, he will surely continue to spend billions on military research and weaponry, guarantees the media's monopolistic control of our publicly owned airwaves and insures greater corporate growth. All big money backs Bush. But we the people did not want Bush again, didn't want his torture chambers or his war for oil and did actually vote him out of office, although not realizing their winning votes wouldn't be counted and couldn't be proved by reason of the Republicans' devious, advance plans of computerization of votes without paper trails. These are the facts about election 2004 that the mass media refuses, in their own financial interest, to accept or report on - which leaves “we the people” at a terrible disadvantage, since most news they see or hear comes to them via mass media.
All of this makes us realize that the only way left for Americans to learn of the inadequacy of the November 2nd election, the fraud perpetrated upon them by the Republican controlled Congress, and the need for a new election to replace it, has to be through news and disclosures circulated by hundreds of dependable, civic-minded non-profit organizations such as yours. It would have to be from letters to be sent by you via email and regular mail to supporters who trust and respect the factual news of problems and their solution you regularly bring them. Certainly they will believe you over the mass media, and that is the key to awakening them to the crisis on hand.
Let me hasten to point out that this is not simply about whether Kerry beat Bush. This is about Americans having lost their fundamental voting rights, without which they have no democracy. If your organization is going to be able to function in the future, if we are to remain a democracy, we must all have free speech, the right to vote and have our votes honestly counted. Needless to say without those rights we will become a third world nation and the role your organization now plays will become impotent, possibly not even permitted.
I submit, the goals you and I have can never be achieved unless, as is happening in the far off Ukraine, where people, made aware of the falsity of their election by exit polls, demanded and got a new election. Our November 2nd election, also proved by every exit poll to be a Kerry victory was just as crooked and needs to be rerun, this time with paper trails and recount-able ballots. And our new election, like theirs must be had before a new Congress and a new Presidency is allowed to take office. This must be our line in the sand from which there can be no retreat! If those who prevented a fair election on November 2nd prevail as a result of computerization without paper trails, which they are on the verge of accomplishing today, I submit we will likely never again have an honest election and will likely have reached the end of the democracy we began on July 4th, 1776 on January 20th, 2005! This is the third election in a row that has been specifically flawed by the Republicans who have illegally seized control of both houses of Congress, as well as the Presidency by specifically blocking a law requiring paper trails for the 2004 election. It is clear now why they voided that evidence!
Now I know you may be inclined to think this type of action does not conform to your bylaws, or past practices, or core issues you are known for. But if not you, the non-profit groups of our nation, the only true, honest representatives of “we the people”, who else is there to let the people know their fate? We are in a crisis in America, the greatest we've ever known, and it is likely terminal unless we all act immediately. Actually the Bush administration has caused the greatest crisis the world has ever known. We need many, many Paul Reveres which is what I'm asking you to become this one time, so I am writing to every group I contribute to, over a hundred in all, with this same plea to spread the news of the faulty election and the need for a new one to replace it. I will ask my email associates to write to their organizations as well, to spread the word of this stabbing our democracy in the back as far and wide and as fast as possible.Time is of the essence; we haven't expired yet but we will in 3 weeks from today, unless we get millions of letters and emails to Americans alerting them to the dangers they face and explaining the critical need for an honest new election before January 20th!
Nothing less than a new national election can suffice, for this is not just an Ohio problem, or a Presidential problem. The November 2nd election violated every citizen's basic right to vote, which is the foundation of our democracy. Votes for many offices in the nation may have been, and likely were also hijacked. There's no telling without 100% of votes being recount-able. Most votes on November were not recountable without that paper trail which was excluded in advance.
No matter what your organization's core issues are, and to which your efforts are solely dedicated, informing your constituents that the election of November 2nd was fraudulent, and why, and urging them to demand a new election, as in the Ukraine, is the most pressing and important action you will ever be able to take for the health of America as well as the very continuance and vitality of your group. This is not political; the right to vote is the most vital right of every citizen of any party. Without it we cannot have basic human rights. Were a fascist dictatorship to evolve in this country, would you have the supporters you now have? With the new 3,000-page national security act (which Congress didn't have time to read before passing) just now going into effect we all face a very uncertain future. I again urge you, plead with you, to spread the word of the falsity of the November 2nd election within the next two weeks and explain the need for a new, honest, paper-vote election! Tempus fugit. May I receive an early response to this letter? America's uninformed citizenry need your help most critically. Don't let them down.
Sincerely,
Kenneth Reiner
Long Beach, CA 90815
P.S. To bring you up to date on the current status of electoral fraud going on in Ohio, and particularly how the corporate media have been hiding news of that and other election fraud from us, see http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1006
Additionally, I recently wrote and am forwarding “A Call for a New Election” for your reference. It includes a copy of the House amendment requiring essential paper vote trails with computerized voting that the Republican Congress in 2003 and 2004 refused to allow a vote on before the November 2nd election. It also references some pertinent links on the importance of honest vote counting to people of every political persuasion.
U.S.: A Call for a New Election, by Ken Reiner + UPDATES
The time has come for a real election. The one we had was a fraud!
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2037&blz=1
PETITION
Here's one thing each of us can do to put a road block in the way of Bush's coronation. When Congress reconvenes on January 6th, at least 14 members of the House of Representatives will challenge the validity of the 2004 election. They will request an immediate investigation into many problems and irregularities encountered in the election.
According to the Electoral Count Act of 1887, one senator and one House Representative are required to contest an election prior to inauguration. We have the representatives; we still need a senator.
Please let your senators know that you want them to stand up with House Representatives and contest the vote. The signed petitions will be delivered to each senator in person by a coalition of representatives from a variety of concerned organizations and individuals. I've signed up. Why not join me, tens of thousands of others in this important act in encouraging your senator to support John Conyers and at least 13 other representatives making the case for counting all the votes in Ohio.
Despite the extensive evidence unearthed already by the Cobb Badnarik teams revealing massive fraud and voter suppression, a real hand count of all votes in any district still has not been permitted by the Republican administration of the state. You and I know what they have to hide!
Ken
Ask Your Senator to stand up and Contest The Vote http://www.contestthevote.org
Happy Holidays to each and every one of my many friends throughout the world. This is a time for reflection, to spend with friends and family and get ready for the New Year's challenges. Here in America we have one tremendous challenge that stands above all others. To do, like the Ukrainians did, set a false election aside and demand a new honest one where all votes will be visible and counted. Here, like in the Ukraine, the people voted one way but the votes were counted in another way. The people said "No" to four more years of Bush but his corporate, big business, warmongering supporters faked the election and are trying to claim he won, which he certainly did not as all exit polls the day of the election proved. We in America have three weeks from today to demand, and get a new, honest, verifiable election. Can we do it? I think we can, and will.
Below is a letter I'm sending to one hundred non-profit organizations who represent the best of America's thinkers and doers. I'm asking them to be the Paul Reveres of this country and save us from the corporations now in control attempting to turn America into the largest, most powerful fascist nation the world has ever experienced. The American people don't want that. They abhor it and won't stand for it. I urge each of you to spread this letter as far and as wide as you can. It is a matter of life and death. The life of a democracy that began the 4th of July 1776 but which will die on January 20th 2005 unless we demand and achieve a new, honest election before that date.
Happy Holidays
Ken
An Urgent Message From A Longtime Contributor
Dear Friends,
I have contributed financially to your group for many years, for I recognize the value of your efforts to create a better world. Now I am asking for your immediate help and support to avoid an imminent crisis facing us all.
America faces an apocalyptic moment. On November 2nd, at least thirty three million Americans (John Conyers estimates more than half of all who voted) lost their right to vote; their votes are indeterminate since they cannot be verified by hand count! This is an amazing and historically disastrous fact! Most of us were forced to vote on computers lacking paper evidence of who we voted for. Can any election be more than a sham under such a condition? Even worse, our votes could have been secretly and invisibly changed to favor George Bush or other Republican congressional candidates by the Republican owned business entities that secretly counted them. And all this after publicly promising their Republican associates they'd win! The bottom line: we really cannot know which Congressman, Senator or President was actually elected on November 2, for the vote-counting was able to be secretly and privately manipulated and then blocked from audit because there were no paper trails required. Thus, the entire national election of November 2 was fundamentally and uncorrectably flawed!
Equally alarming, most people in our country still have no idea their votes were able to be easily changed to make it appear that Bush won the presidency. Thousands of instances show this to have happened, first in Ohio where a recount of those votes that can be hand recounted is being blocked by a Republican Secretary of State (who is chair of Bush's election committee; shades of Florida's Katherine Harris) yet even eight weeks after November 2, the American public is not aware of the fraud of this election. It's become the greatest secret since the one, years ago kept at Alamogordo.
The problem we face is that this outrageous theft of our voting rights is being kept secret from the American people by the corporate TV, newspaper and magazine media! And if we don't find a way to immediately inform the public of what has happened, by the time the people discover it the second Bush administration we did not vote for will again have taken office, just as happened in 2000 when the Supreme Court illegally stopped the recounting of all the votes in Florida (where Gore was ultimately found, through belated vote counts, to have won that state and thus the Presidency).
But the outrageousness of this mass media silence doesn't stop there. It gets much, much uglier. Ever since November 2nd the corporate mass media has been feverishly manufacturing consent to validate the false election results by accepting them without question while issuing thousands of self serving opinion and news articles praising Bush (like Time magazine's Man Of The Year) and suggesting why Kerry “lost the election”, whereas all major exit polls the night of the election indicated Kerry had won, overwhelmingly.
Now, it's easy to understand why corporate America loves and wants Bush to win and are doing everything in their power to see he does, even illegally. He maximizes their profitability, he will surely continue to spend billions on military research and weaponry, guarantees the media's monopolistic control of our publicly owned airwaves and insures greater corporate growth. All big money backs Bush. But we the people did not want Bush again, didn't want his torture chambers or his war for oil and did actually vote him out of office, although not realizing their winning votes wouldn't be counted and couldn't be proved by reason of the Republicans' devious, advance plans of computerization of votes without paper trails. These are the facts about election 2004 that the mass media refuses, in their own financial interest, to accept or report on - which leaves “we the people” at a terrible disadvantage, since most news they see or hear comes to them via mass media.
All of this makes us realize that the only way left for Americans to learn of the inadequacy of the November 2nd election, the fraud perpetrated upon them by the Republican controlled Congress, and the need for a new election to replace it, has to be through news and disclosures circulated by hundreds of dependable, civic-minded non-profit organizations such as yours. It would have to be from letters to be sent by you via email and regular mail to supporters who trust and respect the factual news of problems and their solution you regularly bring them. Certainly they will believe you over the mass media, and that is the key to awakening them to the crisis on hand.
Let me hasten to point out that this is not simply about whether Kerry beat Bush. This is about Americans having lost their fundamental voting rights, without which they have no democracy. If your organization is going to be able to function in the future, if we are to remain a democracy, we must all have free speech, the right to vote and have our votes honestly counted. Needless to say without those rights we will become a third world nation and the role your organization now plays will become impotent, possibly not even permitted.
I submit, the goals you and I have can never be achieved unless, as is happening in the far off Ukraine, where people, made aware of the falsity of their election by exit polls, demanded and got a new election. Our November 2nd election, also proved by every exit poll to be a Kerry victory was just as crooked and needs to be rerun, this time with paper trails and recount-able ballots. And our new election, like theirs must be had before a new Congress and a new Presidency is allowed to take office. This must be our line in the sand from which there can be no retreat! If those who prevented a fair election on November 2nd prevail as a result of computerization without paper trails, which they are on the verge of accomplishing today, I submit we will likely never again have an honest election and will likely have reached the end of the democracy we began on July 4th, 1776 on January 20th, 2005! This is the third election in a row that has been specifically flawed by the Republicans who have illegally seized control of both houses of Congress, as well as the Presidency by specifically blocking a law requiring paper trails for the 2004 election. It is clear now why they voided that evidence!
Now I know you may be inclined to think this type of action does not conform to your bylaws, or past practices, or core issues you are known for. But if not you, the non-profit groups of our nation, the only true, honest representatives of “we the people”, who else is there to let the people know their fate? We are in a crisis in America, the greatest we've ever known, and it is likely terminal unless we all act immediately. Actually the Bush administration has caused the greatest crisis the world has ever known. We need many, many Paul Reveres which is what I'm asking you to become this one time, so I am writing to every group I contribute to, over a hundred in all, with this same plea to spread the news of the faulty election and the need for a new one to replace it. I will ask my email associates to write to their organizations as well, to spread the word of this stabbing our democracy in the back as far and wide and as fast as possible.Time is of the essence; we haven't expired yet but we will in 3 weeks from today, unless we get millions of letters and emails to Americans alerting them to the dangers they face and explaining the critical need for an honest new election before January 20th!
Nothing less than a new national election can suffice, for this is not just an Ohio problem, or a Presidential problem. The November 2nd election violated every citizen's basic right to vote, which is the foundation of our democracy. Votes for many offices in the nation may have been, and likely were also hijacked. There's no telling without 100% of votes being recount-able. Most votes on November were not recountable without that paper trail which was excluded in advance.
No matter what your organization's core issues are, and to which your efforts are solely dedicated, informing your constituents that the election of November 2nd was fraudulent, and why, and urging them to demand a new election, as in the Ukraine, is the most pressing and important action you will ever be able to take for the health of America as well as the very continuance and vitality of your group. This is not political; the right to vote is the most vital right of every citizen of any party. Without it we cannot have basic human rights. Were a fascist dictatorship to evolve in this country, would you have the supporters you now have? With the new 3,000-page national security act (which Congress didn't have time to read before passing) just now going into effect we all face a very uncertain future. I again urge you, plead with you, to spread the word of the falsity of the November 2nd election within the next two weeks and explain the need for a new, honest, paper-vote election! Tempus fugit. May I receive an early response to this letter? America's uninformed citizenry need your help most critically. Don't let them down.
Sincerely,
Kenneth Reiner
Long Beach, CA 90815
P.S. To bring you up to date on the current status of electoral fraud going on in Ohio, and particularly how the corporate media have been hiding news of that and other election fraud from us, see http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1006
Additionally, I recently wrote and am forwarding “A Call for a New Election” for your reference. It includes a copy of the House amendment requiring essential paper vote trails with computerized voting that the Republican Congress in 2003 and 2004 refused to allow a vote on before the November 2nd election. It also references some pertinent links on the importance of honest vote counting to people of every political persuasion.
U.S.: A Call for a New Election, by Ken Reiner + UPDATES
The time has come for a real election. The one we had was a fraud!
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2037&blz=1
PETITION
Here's one thing each of us can do to put a road block in the way of Bush's coronation. When Congress reconvenes on January 6th, at least 14 members of the House of Representatives will challenge the validity of the 2004 election. They will request an immediate investigation into many problems and irregularities encountered in the election.
According to the Electoral Count Act of 1887, one senator and one House Representative are required to contest an election prior to inauguration. We have the representatives; we still need a senator.
Please let your senators know that you want them to stand up with House Representatives and contest the vote. The signed petitions will be delivered to each senator in person by a coalition of representatives from a variety of concerned organizations and individuals. I've signed up. Why not join me, tens of thousands of others in this important act in encouraging your senator to support John Conyers and at least 13 other representatives making the case for counting all the votes in Ohio.
Despite the extensive evidence unearthed already by the Cobb Badnarik teams revealing massive fraud and voter suppression, a real hand count of all votes in any district still has not been permitted by the Republican administration of the state. You and I know what they have to hide!
Ken
Ask Your Senator to stand up and Contest The Vote http://www.contestthevote.org