[Mb-civic] URGENT - The Big Story - News Lockdown and the story they can't talk...

[Johanna Courtleigh]

>>
>> From: "Peter Coyote" <Peter at wdprod.com>
>>  Date: November 8, 2004 4:48:10 PM PST
>>
>>  Subject: FW: URGENT - The Big Story - News Lockdown and the story
>> they can't talk about - Computer Voting and Election Fraud
>>
>>  I received this from a close friend. It has a wealth of "can-do"
>> contacts on it if you're moved to "do something." Remember, the
>> electoral college has not yet voted!!!
>>
>>  Stefanie Cook is a former programmer at Microsoft. Her maiden name
>> is Reichel, and her father was on the National Security Council under
>> Reagen and Bush the First.  She's sharp, smart and pretty well
>> connected.  She's about 38 and lives down the street from me, with
>> her husband and two little girls.  She is not a nut-case.
>>
>>
>>  There is a bumper sticker I saw months ago that sums up the current
>> state of affairs in our country regarding what is the biggest news
>> story you'll never see on the General Media reported.  It said "IF
>> YOUR NOT OUTRAGED, YOUR NOT PAYING ATTENTION". On Friday I received a
>> phone call from a good friend who works at CBS - I've known her for
>> years and she is a Producer for some of the news programs, one well
>> known one in particular.   She tipped me off that the news media is
>> in a "lock-down" and that there is to be no no TV coverage of the
>> real problems with voting on Nov. 2nd.  She said similar "lock-down
>> orders" had come down last year after the invasion of Iraq, but this
>> is far worse - far scarier.  She said the majority of their
>> journalists at CBS and elsewhere in NYC are pretty horrified - every
>> one is worried about their jobs and retribution Dan Rather style or
>> worse.  My source said they've also been forbidden to talk about it
>> even on their own time but she was pissed and her journalistic and
>> moral integrity as what she considers to be a gov't watchdog requires
>> her to speak out, while be it covert and she therefore asked me to
>> "spread" the word...She said that journalism and the truth is at
>> stake.  She said another friend of hers, a producer at MSNBC, said
>> that an anchor by the name of Keith Olbermann had brought it up on
>> his show on Friday eve and the axe came down.  He's atleast fighting
>> back and talking about it on his "Blog", but she said that people
>> there are worried that he's going to be fired by higher ups. She said
>> at this point the only way that the "real news" was going to be if
>> the people started talking about it and made a big enough stink about
>> it to our elected officials, the FEC, and "noise" to the
>> international media, that our own media won't have any choice but to
>> cover it.  (Yes, this is really happening in the good ole' supposed
>> "democratic" free press of the US of A).  The only place you'll see
>> this talked about right now is on the internet and on
>> AirAmericaRadio.
>>
>>
>>
>>  Everyone - this is serious....I can't emphasize it any more than
>> saying if there was ever a time to speak up and take action it is
>> NOW.  If you are feeling sick to your stomach (like me) about the
>> possibility of 4 more years under Bush and the future of our country,
>> and yet you feel helpless, here's your opportunity to take action.
>>  Imagine if you saw a loved one drowning - what do you do?  Well, our
>> country's democracy is drowning and she needs us.
>>
>>
>>
>>  Please, find 20-30 minutes today to call and/or email the following
>> list of people and agencies and tell them that you are outraged and
>> concerned about the possibility of election fraud and votes not
>> having been counted properly in your state and others that may have
>> altered the outcome of the election.  Mention that you are aware of
>> reports from counties around the country (in particular OH and
>> Florida) that reported the following a) More votes recorded than
>> there are voters in counties using electronic voting machines b) that
>> not all military, provisional and absentee ballots have been counted.
>>  Let them know you consider this to be serious violations of your
>> rights as a citizen under the "HAVA - Help America Vote Act" and that
>> you want them to undertake an investigation.
>>
>>
>>
>>  People and Agencies to Contact regarding this matter:
>>
>>
>>
>>  1) Your two Senators & elected Representative - here is the main
>> switchboard number for the House and Senate:
>>
>>
>>     202-224-3121
>>
>>
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>>  2) Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader:
>>
>>
>>     202-225-4965
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>>  3) These members are allegedl/reportedly looking into the issue -
>> urge them to introduce a bill to investigate voter fraud:
>>
>>
>>  Rep. Henry Waxman of CA - 202-225-3976
>>
>>
>>  Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of OH - 202-225-7032
>>
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>>  Rep. Dennis Kucinich of OH - 202-225-5871
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>>  Rep. Tim Ryan of OH - 202-225-5261
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>>  4) Democratic & Republican Members of the House Judiciary Committee:
>>
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>>  Rep. Robert Wexler of FL -  202-225-3001
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>>  Rep. Maxine Waters of CA - 202-225-2201
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>>  Rep. Chabot of OH (R)- 202-225-2216
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>>  Rep. King of IA (R)- 202-225-4426
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>>  5) Democrat & Republican Members (call both) of the Senate Judiciary
>> Committee:
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>>  Sen. Patrick Leahy of VT - 202-224-4242
>>
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>>  Sen. Ted Kennedy of MA - 202-224-4543
>>
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>>  Sen. Joe Biden of DE - 202-224-5042
>>
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>>  Sen. Russ Feingold of WI - 202-224-5323
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>>  Sen. Charles Schumer of NY - 202-224-6542
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>>  Sen. Arlen Specter of PA (R) - 202-224-4254 (thank him also for
>> having urged the Pres. to not choose anti-abortion judges and taking
>> the body blows)
>>
>>
>>  Sen. Mike DeWine of OH (R) - 202-224-2315
>>
>>
>>  Sen. Chuck Grassley of IA (R)- 202-224-3744
>>
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>>  6) Federal Elections Commission:
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>>  Audit Division
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>>  Joseph Stoltz, Assistant Staff Director
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>> Telephone:
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>>  800-424-9530 (press 0, then ext. 1200)
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>> Inspector General
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>>  Lynne McFarland, Inspector General
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>> Telephone:                                         
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>>  800-424-9530 (press 0, then ext. 1015)
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>>  7) The news media - we have to put pressure on them: (this is all I
>> could find for now)
>>
>>
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>>     NBC/MSNBC-
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>>  Nightly at NBC.com & viewerservices at msnbc.com
>>
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>>     CNN-
>>
>>  http://www.cnn.com/feedback/
>>
>>
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>>      CBS-
>>  212-258-6000 - 60II at cbsnews.com, evening at cbsnews.com,
>> 48hours at cbsnews.com,
>>  earlyshow at cbs.com
>>
>>
>>  8)  Call the Secretary of State's office in the state of OH and FL -
>>
>>
>>  Tell them that you demand under the HAVA law to have all votes
>> counted - especially the absentee, military and all provisional
>> ballots counted and verified - tell them you suspect foul-play.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Phone # to OH Sec. of State Kenneth Blackwell's Office:
>>  toll free - 1-877-767-6446 or email:
>>
>>  election at sos.state.oh.us
>>
>>  or 614-466-2585
>>
>>
>>  Phone # to FL Sec. of State Glenda Hood's Office:
>>   
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>>  850-245-6500
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>>
>>  9) Donate $5 to Bev Harris at
>>
>>  http://www.blackboxvoting.org
>>  - she has been filing 1000's of information requests under the
>> "FOIA-Freedom of Information Act" to account for the various voting
>> machines across the country.
>>
>>
>>
>>  10) Email or Fax Ralph Nader - Yep, you heard me, good ole
>> Ralph....here's his opportunity to make up for any feelings of bad
>> will after the 2000 election and the current one.  Ralph has been a
>> lifelong advocate for us, the consumer and little guy and he is
>> actually in the unique position right now to do something since he
>> was a Presidential candidate and has the ability to be listened to.
>>  He has actually already filed a challenge in NH (not that he is
>> looking to overturn the results, but because he can prove there may
>> have been bigger problems and he qualifies there as having been on
>> the ballot).
>>
>>  http://www.votenader.org/media_press/index.php?cid=400
>>  Urge him to do this across the board on a national level.  Heck, the
>> media seemed to have such a lovefest with him before the election,
>> could they possibly ignore him now?  Contact Ralph at - 202-265-4000
>>
>>
>>
>>  11) Call/email Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center:
>> carterweb at emory.edu or call at (800) 550-3560
>>
>>
>>
>>     Former President Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center are
>> considered to be the most experienced in the election process and
>> conducting fair democratic elections - urge him to get involved and
>> investigate possible fraud and the unexplainable discepancies
>> throughout the election involving the computer voting machines,
>> especially in swing states.
>>
>>
>>
>>  In an email I sent you last night, I used the F-word - FRAUD and
>> mentioned to you that I felt strongly that there is a lot of mounting
>> evidence that this election was not clean.   I say that not only out
>> of a result of my observations while out in the field as a poll
>> watcher in the key battleground state of Ohio, I say it with the
>> knowledge and information of reports that have been circulating
>> around the country in various voting precincts involving
>> irregularities and problems with the voting machines and numbers not
>> matching up with the exit polls or actual numbers of registered
>> voters in various precincts.  I've been busy researching this issue
>> and compiling for you below some details of these reports and where
>> you can get more info:
>>
>>
>>
>>  To believe that Bush won the election, you must also believe:
>>
>>
>>
>>  1- That the exit polls were WRONG...(remember - they have been used
>> for over a decade and considered reliable)
>>
>>
>>
>>  2- That Zogby's 5pm election day calls for Kerry winning OH, FL were
>> WRONG. He was within a less than 1/2 % point margin of error in his
>> 2000 final poll and previous polls for other elections.
>>
>>
>>
>>  3- That Harris Poll last minute polling for Kerry was WRONG. They
>> were also within a 1/2% point margin of error in their 2000 final
>> poll.
>>
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>>
>>  4- The Incumbent Rule #I (that undecideds primarily break at the end
>> for the challenger)was WRONG.
>>
>>
>>
>>  5- The 50% Rule was WRONG (that an incumbent doesn't do better than
>> his final polling)
>>
>>
>>
>>  6- The Approval Rating Rule was WRONG (that an incumbent with less
>> than 50% approval will most likely lose the election)
>>
>>
>>
>>  7- That Journalist Greg Palast was WRONG when he said that even
>> before the election, 1 million votes were stolen from Kerry. He was
>> the ONLY reporter to break the fact that 90,000 Florida blacks were
>> disnfranchised in 2000.
>>
>>
>>
>>  8- That it was just a COINCIDENCE that the exit polls were CORRECT
>> where there WAS a PAPER TRAIL and INCORRECT (+5% for Bush) where
>> there was NO PAPER TRAIL.
>>
>>
>>
>>  9- That the surge in new young voters had NO positive effect for
>> Kerry, even though it was the largest number of youth voters 18-29
>> ever and a huge jump from 2000 and they were over 55% in favor of
>> Kerry.
>>
>>
>>
>>  10- That Bush BEAT 99-1 mathematical odds in winning the election.
>>
>>
>>
>>  11- That Kerry did WORSE than Gore against an opponent who LOST the
>> support of SCORES of Republican newspapers who were for Bush in 2000.
>>
>>
>>
>>  12- That Bush did better than an 18 national poll average which
>> showed him tied with Kerry at 47. In other words, Bush got 80% of the
>> undecided vote to end up with a 51-48 majority - when ALL
>> professional pollsters agree that the undecided vote ALWAYS goes to
>> the challenger.
>>
>>
>>
>>  13- That Voting machines made by Republicans with no paper trail and
>> with no software publication, which have been proven by thousands of
>> computer scientists to be vulnerable in scores of ways, were NOT
>> tampered with in this election.
>>
>>
>>
>>  Some Examples: (There are many more, but I won't list them all here
>> - this is to give you an idea)
>>
>>
>>
>>  -  The City of Gahanna in Ohio discovered a discrepancy that gave
>> 4,000 votes to George Bush. After media scrutiny, city officials have
>> admitted to an electronic "glitch" that caused the problem.
>>
>>
>>  -  In Broward County, FL, errors in software code caused a
>> referendum on gambling to be completely overturned. The error caused
>> totals to count backwards after reaching a ceiling of 32,500 votes.
>> The problem existed in the 2002 election as well however the issue
>> was never resolved by the manufacturer of the electronic voting
>> machine.
>>
>>
>>
>>  -  In North Carolina, a Craven County district logged 11,283 more
>> votes than voters and actually overturned the results of a regional
>> race.
>>
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>>  For more info, go to:
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>>  http://www.blackboxvoting.org
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>>  http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1106-30.htm
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>>
>>  There are key people right now working behind the scenes on
>> this...but meanwhile, we the people at a a grassroots level need to
>> start making the corporate media pay attention to the "Real Story"
>> not the "Moral Values" headlines and stories being featured on the
>> news currently including the "Boy Genius - Karl Rove" Cover stories
>> on CNN and Fox.  We need to support those that are pursuing this
>> issue to reveal the truth and get an inquiry going.  If any of you
>> remember Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11, you'll remember the
>> scene where the Black Congressional Caucus members stood up in a
>> joint session of Congress in 2000 and asked for a single Senator to
>> back them in an investigation of "Voter Fraud and
>> Disenfranchisement".  Many who saw the film felt ashamed at that
>> moment and many didn't even know this had happened.  Well, its
>> happening all over again....History has a funny way of repeating
>> itself if we don't pay attention and learn.  Currently there are
>> several members of Congress and the House Judiciary Committee that
>> have requested  the GAO (General Accounting Office) to implement an
>> inquiry into computer voting machine problems
>> (http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/
>> gaoinvestvote2004ltr11504.pdf).
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>  There are also folks across the country at the grassroots level
>> filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to investigate
>> these problems immediately.  One of the biggest driving individuals
>> behind this effort is a woman by the name of Bev Harris from Seattle,
>> WA. (her site is http://www.blackboxvoting.org).  I became familiar
>> with Bev Harris when I saw her on MSNBC give a demonstration to
>> Howard Dean on how easy it was to "hack" the central tabulator
>> computer for these computer voting systems and change the results.
>>  She did it in less than 2 minutes and in a way that no one
>> monitoring the system could tell.  I later saw her demonstrate this
>> at a presentation here in Marin County this year. Sadly, no one
>> seemed to pay attention, including in the Democratic Party and now,
>> here we are after one of the biggest elections of our lifetime and
>> with problems surfacing all over the place with no answers or
>> accountability. Worse is that no one is covering what is perhaps the
>> biggest story of all - the fraud involved in this election.
>>
>>
>>
>>  This is not the "Dems" being sore losers...this is real stuff folks.
>>  Real problems.  If this issue and fraud isn't addressed, our
>> democracy and our votes in the future are dead. Won't even be a point
>> in voting.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>  Kerry On fellow Patriotic Americans for Democracy
>>
>>
>>
>>  Namaste
>>
>>
>>
>>  Stefanie
>>
>>
>> "A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over,
>> their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight,
>> restore their government to its true principles.
>>
>>  It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit,
>> and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous
>> public debt......If the game runs sometimes against us at home we
>> must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an
>> opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is
>> a game where principles are at stake."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Thomas Jefferson, 1798, after the passage of the Sedition Act.
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> Johanna Courtleigh, MA, LPC
> Licensed Professional Counselor
> e-mail: johanna at jcourtleigh.com
> website: www.johannacourtleigh.com
> phone: (503) 684-8481
>
> "I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how
> tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit
> without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn
> to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that in itself creates
> new potential."
> Vandana Shiva, India Activist and Author
>
>
Johanna Courtleigh, MA, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
e-mail: johanna at jcourtleigh.com
website: www.johannacourtleigh.com
phone: (503) 684-8481

"I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how
tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit
without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn
to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that in itself creates
new potential."
Vandana Shiva, India Activist and Author


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