4 congressional seats now contested in Florida!!!!

[Dr.Phool]

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MEDIA ALERT

ATTENTION ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT ON CONTESTED FLORIDA ELECTIONS

On January 4, 2007, Congressman Rush Holt will address the issue of the outstanding election contests on the floor of the House of Representatives. Congressman Holt will point out that the seating of the new Congress does not indicate that the House has decided the elections which are being contested before it pursuant to 2 USC § 381 et seq., the Federal Contested Elections Act.

Congressman Holt is expected to call for bipartisan support for the investigation into the wide-spread problems of under-votes and over-votes in precincts throughout Florida and for election law reforms to ensure that criteria are established to guarantee fair and verifiable elections in the future so that our country remains a representative democracy where our leaders are actually elected by the voters instead of possibly being elected by machine error or illegal manipulation of the vote count. For more information on Congressman Holt’s position on this important issue, please contact Matt Dennis at 202-225-5801.

The results of four of Florida’s Congressional elections are being contested before the House of Representatives, and five Congressional elections are being contested in Florida state court. John Russell is contesting the results of the 2006 General Election for U.S. Representative for District 5 of the State of Florida and the election of Ginny Brown-Waite. Frank Gonzalez is contesting the results of the election for U.S. Rep. for District 21 of Florida and the election of Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Clint Curtis is contesting the results of the election for U.S. Rep. for District 24 of Florida and the election of Tom Feeney. Mr. Russell, Mr. Gonzalez, and Mr. Curtis are represented by Mark A. Adams, Esquire of Tampa, and they are also contesting these elections in Florida state court. Mr. Curtis is also represented before Congress by Cynthia Butler, Esquire of Washington D.C. Gus Bilirakis’ election in District 9 is also contested in Florida state court.

Christine Jennings is contesting the results of the election for U.S. Rep. for District 13 of Florida before the House of Representatives and in Florida state court. For more information regarding Ms. Jennings’ contests, please contact (snip phone #).

[bullimiami]

1. five.

[ChiciB1]

2. Guess They Figured If They Could Stop It In Florida They

were going to win! How ANYONE can ever doubt that they been screwing with the elections in Florida since 2000 is beyond my comprehension!

And STILL, we are batting ZERO!!!!!

[SteppingRazor]

3. Yeah, but only one with any heft

Russell, Gonzalez and Curtis lost to Republicans in heavily red districts, in which no substantial voting irregularities were documented -- unlike the more purplish FL-13, in which Jennings' contested election includes almost 20,000 undervotes in the most blue part of the district.

There's a real possibility that Jennings belongs in the House. I don't think you can say the same for the other three.

[shance]

4. Who says? This is a great step. I hope other candidates who have been unfairly

cheated will take their day in court as well.

[SteppingRazor]

5. That's the key word -- "unfairly"

As far as the voting process is concerned those candidates lost fair and square.

Now, we can certainly talk about the evils of gerrymandered districts all you want -- Tom Feeney, for example, couldn't lost an election if he tried, given his district's demographics. And a Diaz-Balart does not lose in an almost entirely Cuban district in Miami.

But as far as the actual voting process is concerned, these guys lost, and not unfairly.

[Dr.Phool]

6. I was Deputy Campaign Manager for Russell.

After the election, we had people walk precincts, as did the Curtis Campaign. Using the Supervisor Of Elections records of who voted in the General Election, voters signed affadavits as to who they voted for. We found a disrepancy of over 20 percent in the official results. Some voters, listed as having voted signed affadavits that they DID NOT vote.

I worked 2 counties hard for a year, and the feeling I got during that year, and at the polls on election day, were the opposite of the results. People coming out and saying, "I'm a life-long Republican, but I voted for you guys".

Pasco County has the same paperless machines (ES&S) as Sarasota. Our Press Secretary went to Citrus County to observe the count. When she returned, she said the workers were complaining "These machines (optical scan)have been jamming all day".

Somebody has to look into this.