A good report from the US Voting Integrity Project .....

[JoMama49]

A report from the US Voting Integrity Project

A report from Washington: Seeking Senate support of the challenge

Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:39:24 -0500 Today seven of us went to Washington
to meet with staffers in Senator Sarbanes' office. I felt it was a
good meeting, and each of us had something worthwhile to contribute.
I hope the staffers felt as I did that we represented people with
different backgrounds coming together on this vital issue, each with
our own perspective and our own reasons for caring so deeply. I felt
that we had a good grasp of the issues involved and were also able
to
present the realities of grass roots activism, the contact with
people who feel disenfranchised and the need to assuage their fear
and ours that individual votes might not count anymore.

Two of Sarbanes's Staff met with us, Kima, who is a pediatrician,
and
Ryan, who seemed very aware of this problem and sympathetic to our
concerns.

We emphasized how important we feel it is that Senator Sarbanes
stand
up for us and challenge the certification of the election, a step
which would open some chance for all this to be looked into. Jay and
Lynn spoke eloquently of needing to be true to those people whom
they
had assured that their votes would count. Tim mentioned that people
who've given their all for a cause can't continue working for that
cause unless their leaders support them. Jim made the point that
Senator Sarbanes is largely responsible for the Sarbanes Oxley bill,
which protects stockholders in their transactions in a way in which
voters are not protected by the law. Kima responded to that that
that
legislation was passed under Democratic leadership. Steve stated
that
10-15 Senators would be ready to challenge if one would lead the
way.
Sherri argued persuasively that we who have worked so hard, gone to
various states, etc., need to see our leadership standing up for us.

All of us pointed out the various anomalies and cover-ups that have
occurred, the fact that we cannot trust the official vote count in
Ohio and that that fact is undermining our democracy and our faith
in
it. Both in the meeting and in getting the appointment for it and
later in other offices, I quoted Chris' account of covering up the
stray pencil marks in Ohio to make the hand and machine counts
agree,
and being able to say that I know someone who directly witnessed
these things and can attest to them seems to make an impression. We
were proud to present the excellent package of information that
Sherri had put together. I wish that you all could have seen her
binders, with a cover showing our group name, a list of contents,
all
paginated and very professionally presented.
more at: http://www.usvip.org/article.asp?id=83&bc=6

[drpdx]

1. very impressive!

Thank you all for what sounds like A LOT of hard work. Let's hope our "leaders" can show the same kind of integrity and focus.