quick VOTE update

VOTE
* "RedefeatBush.com's David Lytel, asserted that Senator Barbara Boxer of California will in fact contest the results of the presidential election in Ohio along with, at a minimum, U.S. House Representative Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (D-OH). Harry Reid (D-NV) has informed his caucus members that they may contest Ohio so long as no other states are contested." (i havent seen this confirmed - altho lytel wouldnt say it if it wasnt true is my guess)
http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/01/breaking-news-election-2004-bostons.html

* "Mr. Lytel informed participants at Monday's "Rally for the Republic" that, despite this edict, his organization is presently working on gathering Senators, if possible, for challenges to the Republican electors from New Mexico and Nevada. Lytel also noted that perhaps two to three other states -- including North Carolina and Indiana -- may be challenged, though Lytel conceded such challenges were highly unlikely."

* blackwell wrote a letter to his constituents: "“Without your enthusiasm, generous support and vote, I’m afraid the President would have lost,” Blackwell wrote, “And an unapologetic liberal Democrat named John Kerry would have won.”
“Thankfully,” he adds, “you and I stopped that disaster from happening.”

Blackwell also noted that he was “truly pleased” to announce President Bush the victor in Ohio even before all the votes had been counted. He adds that he declared the victor on his own personal belief."
go read it http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=528


* "Three state (texas!) legislative candidates (repugs!) who are challenging their defeats in the Nov. 2 election will get hearings this month before a special House committee charged with determining the legality of the contests." http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2976415

* conyers has released his report - i havent read it yet - this from the execsumm: "We have found numerous, serious election irregularities in the Ohio presidential election, which resulted in a significant disenfranchisement of voters. Cumulatively, these irregularities, which affected hundreds of thousand of votes and voters in Ohio, raise grave doubts regarding whether it can be said the Ohio electors selected on December 13, 2004, were chosen in a manner that conforms to Ohio law, let alone federal requirements and constitutional standards.

This report, therefore, makes three recommendations: (1) consistent with the requirements of the United States Constitution concerning the counting of electoral votes by Congress and Federal law implementing these requirements, there are ample grounds for challenging the electors from the State of Ohio; (2) Congress should engage in further hearings into the widespread irregularities reported in Ohio; we believe the problems are serious enough to warrant the appointment of a joint select Committee of the House and Senate to investigate and report back to the Members; and (3) Congress needs to enact election reform to restore our people’s trust in our democracy. These changes should include putting in place more specific federal protections for federal elections, particularly in the areas of audit capability for electronic voting machines and casting and counting of provisional ballots, as well as other needed changes to federal and state election laws.

With regards to our factual finding, in brief, we find that there were massive and unprecedented voter irregularities and anomalies in Ohio. In many cases these irregularities were caused by intentional misconduct and illegal behavior, much of it involving Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, the co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio." http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=529 pdf report here http://rawstory.com/images/pdfs/finareport.pdf

* georgia10 does another triffic bit of work - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/5/84732/37166 - and read her report http://www.460design.net/citizenguide/EyeOnOhio.pdf (im in love with her)

* "Clint Curtis is currently on Capitol Hill now meeting with Senate staffers. We can report that he has already met this morning with staffers in the office of the following Democratic Senators: Debbie Sabatow (MI), Russell Feingold (WI), Barbara Boxer (CA), Barbara Mikulski (MD) and Barack Obama (IL).
Meetings are scheduled later today with the staffers of these additional Senate offices: Ted Kennedy (MA), Dick Durbin (IL), Patrick Leahy (VT), Ken Salazar (CO)." http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001100.htm

* its a bizzy day!

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