Thursday, November 11, 2004
Sign the Petition
From MoveOn:
posted by Blicero : 11/11/2004 03:18:00 PM
Questions are swirling around whether the election was conducted honestly or not. We need to know -- was it or wasn't it?Obviously there was a "conspiracy." Whether or not it made the difference in deciding the vote for Bush is not known. But at the very least we deserve to have it investigated.
If people were wrongly prevented from voting, or if legitimate votes were mis-counted or not counted at all, we need to know so the wrongdoers can be held accountable, and so we can prevent this from happening again.
Members of Congress are demanding an investigation to answer this question. The decision on whether or not there will be an investigation could come as soon as Monday. Join us in supporting the call for one now, at:
http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/
Then please invite your friends and colleagues to sign, as well. We need to show Congress that hundreds of thousands of Americans are serious about protecting the integrity of the vote.
We're all hearing the stories and wondering what's true and what isn't. But at least two cases of serious problems are accepted beyond doubt:
• In Broward County, Florida, electronic voting machines counted backwards: as more people voted, the official vote count went down. [1]
• In one Columbus, Ohio suburb, election officials have acknowledged that electronic voting machines credited Bush with winning 4,258 votes, even though only 638 people voted there. [2]
These are just cases where we know something went wrong. There were also lots of reports of people being denied ballots on Election Day. So far, these reports remain anecdotal, but they must be compiled and examined. And the Internet is abuzz with theories about why the official counts were so different from the exit polls.
posted by Blicero : 11/11/2004 03:18:00 PM
