Thursday, January 06, 2005

Vote Counting Reform

This is a selection from an email I got from John Kerry. Quite frankly, I'm impressed. It's not being a sore loser, it's making sure that there is no question that our federal elections are valid and that there is no question as to the results. So, do it. Call the congressional leaders and your local congressmen. Make them make these changes to help us. Kosher.

Despite widespread reports of irregularities, questionable practices by some election officials and instances of lawful voters being denied the right to vote, our legal teams on the ground have found no evidence that would change the outcome of the election.
But, that does not mean we should abandon our commitment to addressing those problems that happened in Ohio. We must act today to make sure they never happen again.
I urge you to join me in using this occasion to highlight our demand that Congress commit itself this year to reforming the electoral system. A Presidential election is a national federal election but we have different standards in different states for casting and counting votes. We need a national federal standard to solve the problems that occurred in the 2004 election. I will propose legislation to help achieve this.
Florida 2000 was a wake up call. But the Republicans who control Congress ignored it. Will they now ignore what happened in 2004?
There are nearly 3,000,000 of you receiving this email. We accomplished so much together during the campaign. Now let's use our power to make sure that at least one good thing comes from the voting rights problems of the 2004 election. If we want to force real action on election reform, we've got to demand that congressional leaders hold full hearings. Make sure they hear from you and help hold them accountable.

Speaker Dennis Hastert: 1-202-225-0600

Leader Bill Frist: 1-202-224-3135


And please report that you've made your call right here:
http://www.johnkerry.com/signup/electoral_reform.php

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