Recount in Full Swing in Ohio! Cobb Urges Us to Contact Media!

[KoKo]

Recount in Full Swing in Ohio
Daily Update
Thursday, December 9, 2004

Recount activities in Ohio are in full swing! Coordinating staff are being hired on the ground in Ohio, and volunteer training will begin soon. It looks like the 88 county recounts will begin on different days, either December 14, 15 or 16. We are still looking for donations to pay for recount expenses, so please give what you can.
Many groups, including the Green Party, are planning protest activities all across the country for December 13th, when the Ohio Electors (and the other 49 state Electors) meet to cast ballots as part of the Electoral College process. Given that it was an unfair initial voting process which resulted in a vote total that is being disputed and recounted, how can the Electors cast their ballots for George Bush — or any candidate — until the recount is completed?
At yesterday's Congressional Forum in Washington on voting irregularities that was convened by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), it was suggested that if the Ohio recount results in a Kerry victory, then a second set of Electors could be convened to send a vote to Congress, which will count the Electoral votes on January 6th. What might happen if two sets of Ohio Electoral votes show up in Congress is anyone's guess.


We must never repeat the momentous blunder of 2000, and allow the recount to be stopped, only to be told by the press months later that if all the valid, machine-rejected votes were counted, the man occupying the White House lost the election (SOURCES: 1 ; 2; 3).

In his opening statement, Rep. Conyers asked us all to take action in support of his efforts to investigate the 2004 election irregularities in Ohio by contacting: (1) Secretary of State Blackwell (2) James Sensenbrenner, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Please respond to Rep. Conyer's request for a strong showing of support by concerned voters. With all three branches of government under one-party rule, only a strong message from America's voters will get results.

We will be posting a complete list of December 13 activities here soon, so please send information about your events to us at [e-mail]. Thanks, as always, for your support. We couldn't do it without our 6,000+ donors and 3,000+ volunteers! more updates


* Tell the media you support the recount!
* Funds still needed for observers in 88 Ohio counties
How money raised so far is being spent

http://www.votecobb.org/

[pbartch]

1. WE NEED THE RECOUNT TO START NOW!!!!!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GREENPARTY
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LIBS
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO KERRY/EDWARDS

I still believe Kerry and the Dems are in the backgound in STEALTH mode and he's getting ready to break out......telling everybody that he should be President and Edwards should be VP.

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. Damn I wish I could be there to help.

[MrUnderhill]

3. Can you link "sources 1,2,3" ??

I'm looking for the article re: the 2000 recount by the media consortium.

[KoKo]

5. Cobb site doesn't give the tables but here's link to the NORC site where

hopefully you'll find what you're looking for.

http://www.norc.org/fl/

[bones_7672]

4. I thought the GLIBS already had the funds for the recount(?) n/t

[KoKo]

6. They collected money for the Filing /Legal Fee's, they need more help

in training, housing and feeding the volunteers.

[BeFree]

7. Conyers asksed us to

In his opening statement, Rep. Conyers asked us all to take action in support of his efforts to investigate the 2004 election irregularities in Ohio by contacting: (1) Secretary of State Blackwell (2) James Sensenbrenner, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

Sensenbrenner's email: James Sensenbrenner, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee

[e-mail]

[momzno1]

8. I wrote a brief note

"Please facilitiate a timely recount in Ohio. We do not want to seat another presidential term with uncertainty of the results. When all the votes were finally counted in Florida in 2000 the real winner was Al Gore. Our Democracy cannot sustain another 4 years of "faux president".
And please do everything in your power to make sure that we have free and fair elections... Just like they are now doing in the Ukraine... Don't trivialize or make a mockery of our Great Democracy!"
Sincerely,
xxxxxxxxxxxx


how do you like the "faux president" -- has anyone used that before? Or did I have a moment of brilliance?

[BeFree]

10. Personally,

I think "faux" is brilliant.

But the puke senator who is head of Judiciary probably does not.

The only way to appeal to him, imo, is to keep your words in the strict confines of your last sentence: "Don't trivialize or make a mockery of our Great Democracy."

The very idea that he would refuse to look into the efforts being undertaken by members of the Judiciary committee is trivializing Democracy, eh?

[sce56]

11. Yes it was a Faux News moment just like the Faux Warrior we have in the WH

http://web.archive.org/web/20030402135135/

[seito]

9. Done n/t