This was forwarded to me about ten minutes ago from a friend who’s on the Multnomah County Dems list. Checking the web for backup/validity…
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BREAKING—KERRY TO UNCONCEDE IF THERE IS EVIDENCE OF FRAUD
FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW
EMAIL FROM DC LAWYER CYNTHIA BUTLER
I am angry and getting emails and recrimination from people wondering why KERRY just caved and is not fighting this before the final count in Ohio, before any of the fraud was challenged, before New Mexico and Iowa even came in.
There is widespread feeling that he did not lose the election and that it was taken from him.
There is enough here to warrant investigation and enough to challenge the results. It’s coming from all corners.
I understand that he has until the official count certification in Ohio to unconcede which is several days from now.
Anyone who thinks that he should unconcede should give reasons why -
whatever they noticed, particularly in Red Republican Governed States using electronic machines- and send them directly to Cameron KERRY, John Kerry’s brother at his law firm at the address CKerry@Mintz.com
They should inform us if they were not allowed to vote provisionally (for whatever reason- they lost forms, ran out of forms, etc.) I personally witnessed a number of things as I reported in Texas with the DCCC. (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee)
If you know anyone in particular in Ohio who tried to vote and was turned away at the polls please get their information and notify the campaign.
They should be notified if they experienced lines longer than four hours - particularly elderly or infirm people (we call that torture when they do it to political prisoners). They should be notified if people were told as has been reported that due to too many people showing up in African American precincts, particularly in Ohio where there were too few booths (some only had two or three for the entire precinct) and told because of heavy turn out they could vote on Wednesday. If the numbers of these sorts of incidents creates a percentage margin that exceeds the margin of victory- Un Concession has to be made to challenge the count.
If people wanted to and tried to vote and were prevented or actively discouraged from doing so, that is a Civil Rights matter and must be dealt with in terms of the ultimate count.
This is the last email that I am writing on this subject in this venue. I am taking it up in other venues.
Please pass along this to your listservs so that we may make Democracy Work in America. We are not a country where he who cheats best wins.
Cynthia L. Butler
BUTLER LAW FIRM, P.C.
1717 K St. NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
Jeremy said,
November 8, 2004 @ 6:02 pm
Not that I would dare to get my hopes up, but I do believe there was wide spread hacking of the voting machines and the networks that votes were reported on. Proving this is going to be difficult, but nothing compared to what having to live under another four years of neo-con hell.
joselle said,
November 8, 2004 @ 8:12 pm
I’ll spread the word. I’m in a blue state but my friend’s boyfriend was told he could not vote because, although he was registered (and had his voter reg card with him), his name wasn’t in the book he needed to sign. WTF? It took workers an hour to see if they could get him a provisional ballot by which time, he was very late to work and had to leave.
And that’s just one story.
I’ll be posting and emailing this, Emily. THANK YOU.
mae said,
November 10, 2004 @ 4:51 pm
i question the validity of the email from Cynthia Butler…could not find a Butler law firm at that zipcode, nor a Cynthia Butler.
i emailed the address CKerry@Mintz.com
this is the reply:
I am grateful to the many people who have contacted me to express their
deep concern about questions of miscounting, fraud, vote suppression, and
other problems on election day, especially in Florida and Ohio. Their
concern reflects how much people care about the outcome of this election.
I want to you to know we are not ignoring it. Election protection lawyers
are still on the job in Ohio and Florida and in DC making sure all the
votes are counted accurately. I have been conferring with lawyers
involved and have made them aware of the information and concerns people
have given me. Even if the facts don’t provide a basis to change the
outcome, the information will inform the continuing effort to protect the
integrity of our elections.
If you have specific factual information about voting problems that could
be helpful to the lawyers doing their job, please send it to vri@dnc.org
rather than to me.
The election protection effort has been important to me personally, and I
am proud of the 17,000 lawyers around the country who helped. It’s
obvious that we have a way to go still, but their efforts helped make a
difference. Their work goes on.
Thank you,
Cam Kerry
Cynthia Butler said,
November 28, 2004 @ 6:21 am
The issue is alive and well. For updates see the later entries on this Live Journal feed;
http://www.livejournal.com/community/johnkerry04/624056.html