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And now, assignment number seven. This one will make you cry.

From DC correspondent Rod Smith

Friends--

I am increasingly convinced that this election has been stolen, and I believe that the first step is to make sure that as many people as possible have the information that is available. Below are a number of reports, please take some time to look them over if you haven't encountered them already. There is word that Kerry is considering unconceding if enough evidence emerges-- that information is also included below. This is, I think, incredibly important, not just to us but to people all over the world.

1. MSNBC report:

http://homepage.mac.com/duffyb/nobush/iMovieTheater270.html

2. excellent list of links to stories on the questionable election results:

http://radtimes.blogspot.com/

3. from Thom Hartman story at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm

While the heavily scrutinized touch-screen voting machines seemed to produce results in which the registered Democrat/Republican ratios largely matched the Kerry/Bush vote, in Florida's counties using results from optically scanned paper ballots - fed into a central tabulator PC and thus vulnerable to hacking ? the results seem to contain substantial anomalies.

In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry.

In Dixie County, with 9,676 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but 4,433 voted for Bush.

The pattern repeats over and over again - but only in the counties where optical scanners were used. Franklin County, 77.3% registered Democrats, went 58.5% for Bush. Holmes County, 72.7% registered Democrats, went 77.25% for Bush.

Yet in the touch-screen counties, where investigators may have been more vigorously looking for such anomalies, high percentages of registered Democrats generally equaled high percentages of votes for Kerry. (I had earlier reported that county size was a variable ? this turns out not to be the case. Just the use of touch-scrversus optical scanners.)

Also See:

Florida Secretary of State Presidential Results by County 11/02/2004 (.pdf)

Florida Secretary of State County Registration by Party 2/9/2004 (.pdf)

4. Request from Kerry's attorney

Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:03 AM
Subject: Fw: On Kerry's Brother (lawyer)--Really Important to those in Florida, Ohio, New Hampshire, New Mexico

Please pass this on to those in these states who might have personal information to provide.

Everyone! Please forward to all who have specifics on vote fraud. The send-to address below is John Kerry's brother at his law firm. Kerry will unconcede if there is solid evidence of fraud. We need first hand sufferers so please get this info to them!!

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 Un Concede 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 n umbers 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

http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html

Dal LaMagna
Dal LaMagna, Founder
Progressive Government Institute 12 Eliot Street 3rd Floor Left
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-547-1331
mobile number 516-456-2696
dal@progressivegovernment.org
www.progressivegovernment.org

5. Thanks.

--Rod Smith