- BREAKING - Election Fraud: ALERT YOUR LOCAL CAMPAIGN OFFICE

With the excellent HACKING DEMOCRACY being aired on HBO the past few days, Progressive Activists are being asked to call their local campaign with one simple message:

DO NOT CONCEDE.


from Tracey Denton of DFANYC

In early voting in Florida and Missouri, there are already reports of voting machines switching to Republican when the voter presses Democrat. Here in New York, Republicans are intimidating minority voters in key races. If the Republicans win by these illegal tactics, we want the mainstream media to expose this. Please tell the candidates you support NOT to concede if there are problems with the vote count

Jerry McNerney, the candidate running against Pombo in California, has told me that he will not concede if there are problems with the electronic voting machines in his race. If you find that there are other candidates that pledge not to concede, please let me know: tdenton@dfnyc.org.

From Josh Pepper

This year, with all of us having great concern that election results may have no guarantee of accuracy, we are asking all candidates not to concede defeat in close elections or when any allegations of voting improprieties occur. We may never know whether an election is stolen. If there are doubts about the proper vote count, the media are not likely to pay much attention when a candidate concedes the race to his or her opponent. By contrast, if a candidate contests the election results, the media see a story and are more likely to cover the allegations of improprieties. When a candidate concedes an election, even where there have been serious allegations of election improprieties, the media go away and give virtually no coverage to the allegations of fraud. This occurred after John Kerry's concession in 2004 and Francine Busby's concession after the June 7th special election for Congress in San Diego this year. By contrast, the media will pay close attention to election problems when candidates do not concede, such as the presidential election of 2000 and the State Senate race in 2004 between Andrew Stewart-Cousins and Nick Spano. Only when the media stick around will the difficult questions be asked so that, if anyone should attempt to steal an election, the truth is more likely to be exposed.

Although we all want to believe that our elected officials will ensure that all votes are counted accurately, experience shows otherwise. Polls are showing that more and more people believe that their votes will not count. And they have reason to be concerned. Already, accounts of voting machine failures, power failures, and outright voter intimidation are interfering with the democratic process. For example, here in New York State, Republican State Senator Nick Spano challenged approximately 5000 minority voters and asked the police to visit these voters in their homes to check on whether they lived there. Some links to other reports are here:
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/8/44859.html
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102606Z.shtml
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/15869924.htm
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3675

I know many of us are contributing and volunteering for candidates this year. So please take a moment to call the campaigns of the candidates you support and ask them to pledge not to concede. It's the only way to truly expose the electoral problems we have had, and likely will have, in our election system. Every close election should be closely monitored and reviewed with media broadcasting everything for the country to see. Then, and only then, do we have the best chance that every declared election winner will be the candidate who actually received the most votes.

i've heard MARK CRISPIN MILLER, GREG PALAST, RAY BECKERMAN all discuss how the 2004 election was stolen. SIMON ROSENBERG of NDN believes that election fraud is an issue that must be taken up by the Democratic Party. The branding is simple, The Dems are the party that wants you to vote, the Republicans are the party that doesn't want you to vote.

if there is a huge win for the Dems on tuesday, fully expect the republicans to scream election fraud and try to quickly pass some bad legislation requiring voter i.d. and electronic voting machines.

but, for fcks sake, call your local candidate , whoever you are supporting, and urge them to read the message from the DFANYC and pledge to not concede without an examination of the voter fraud issue.