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emlev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 01:51 PM
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Has your election integrity group issued a Statement of No Confidence Yet?
Your action right now really can help save democracy.
The "battleground" is San Diego County, but its results will be nation-wide. (If you don't know about this issue yet, here's a good place to get started in learning about it: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3002)

As BradBlog reported yesterday,

"What happens here and now — in regard to this race and its results as announced — will send a signal to elections administrators across the country. The signal will be one of two…

"Either the rule of law must be followed in the administration of elections, because the citizens of this country demand accountability and verifiability in our elections and democracy itself depends on confidence in the results of these elections…

Or the message will be that elections officials, spending billions and billions of our own tax dollars, are welcome to ignore all such laws and emergency security provisions in the wake of the first-time use of the <7> world's most tamperable voting machines, tell us on Election Night whatever (unverified and unverifiable) numbers they wish, and Americans will subsequently roll over and say 'Great. Good enough for us. We'll believe anything you tell us. Even if you haven't and couldn't prove your results are accurate if your life depended on it.'"

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3002

Groups and individuals that have already issued statements of No Confidence include:
Brad Friedman (BradBlog)
California Election Protection Network
Velvet Revolution
Progressive Democrats of America
Election Defense Alliance
Commonweal
VoteTrust USA
Clint Curtis
John Bonifaz
Bob Koehler
Kevin Zeese
and Jeeni Criscenzo

Wherever your election integrity organization is located and whatever its size or perceived influence, your "statement of no confidence" is needed now. Today. Town Hall meetings are being held in Los Angeles tonight (6/27) and San Diego tomorrow (6/28). The longer the list of groups calling for a hand count of the ballots in the San Diego election, the better. (And even if you read this after 6/28, please take action.)

The statements by those listed above can be found, read and pilfered from at bradblog.com. (To read BradBlog in black and white, click "print version" at the bottom of one of the posts.)

Please draft a statement now, get it approved by your organization, and send it to brad.friedman@cville.com.
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Einsteinia Donating Member (645 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 02:02 PM
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1. Wow! I thought more had signed on.
thanks Emily
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emlev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 02:14 PM
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2. Do you know of some I don't know about? EOM
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emlev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 05:51 PM
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3. Other social justice groups can issue statements, too--and individuals!
Let's make our voices heard.
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Techno Dog Donating Member (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 07:08 PM
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4. Clint Curtis?
Who in California has ever heard of him, or cares what he thinks?


Conyers found him so unreliable that he didn't even include his testimony in his report.
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emlev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 09:09 PM
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5. kick
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GuvWurld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-28-06 06:42 PM
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6. Kick (eom)
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