my letter to be published in Voice of the People this week

[EC]

Voice of the People
Kenosha News
5800 – 7th Ave.
Kenosha, WI. 53141

Dan Thomasson's article on Sunday, 01/23/05, "Being a sore loser isn't a sound strategy" misses the point. This isn't about "sour grapes", it's about our right to vote being sidelined by a mindset of doing anything to win.


There were 58,000 complaints filed with 1-866-OUR-VOTE call line on election day, 37,000 of them in Ohio alone. These are complaints called in by voters and poll workers, Democrat and Republican, from all over the country given the phone number at the polls. There were a few Republican complaints, but the bulk was Democrat. Right here in Kenosha, where I thought everything was fine and dandy, I found 28 cases reported, several, that were very disturbing to me: complaint# 036348, 11/02/04, 9:47 AM PST Voter Intimidation Carthage College, Kenosha County, Wisconsin Dean of Students is sponsoring a shuttle to various polling places for college students. African American students report they are not allowing rides to polling sites, and that only White students are allowed rides, complaint # 043636 11/02/04, 2:12 PM PST Voter Intimidation Ward 24, Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin Politician Operative Wisc. T-shirt harassing poll workers. Elderly poll workers being harassed - caller very upset, complaint # 046856 11/02/04, 4:09 PM PST Other polling place problem Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin Students being denied on grounds that their residence is elsewhere.

Ohio was much worse, and the recount was not any better since a proper ballot hand count was never done, as required by law. I will not go into all the problems but will ask you to go to: https://voteprotect.org and http://www.freepress.org and look for yourself. By 2008 Wisconsin will have to replace the lever voting machines still being used because of Help America Vote Act (HAVA). We must demand methods of voting that allow for paper trails.

If voting rights are important to you, then please look at the websites, I assure you, you'll get angry, then get working, write letters to our Congressmen , Senators, to the Governor, this is 2005, this shouldn't be happening in this day and age, this is a democratic republic, not a banana republic.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Excellent letter, and congrats on getting it published.

[Pam-Moby]

2. Congratulations and well done....n/t

[ultraist]

3. WELL DONE!

Congrats on getting published!

[EC]

4. Thanks....n/t