Dear Stan, Bob, and all who care about fair and accurate voting, Most people see candidates throwing in the towel before a full and accurate count of the votes have been made as an enormous betrayal to all those constituents who dedicated so much of their time and money in the process of democracy. It is a betrayal of all those voters who came out in record numbers and stood in long lines, sometimes in excess of two hours in this district. The confidence we have in our voting systems has been shaken to the core, and this issue must be addressed. In order for people to have faith we must know where glaring discrepancies in accounting for our votes such as these occur, they will not just be swept under the rug. Please stand up for those who poured out their time and efforts for democracy and challenge these outrageous results. These results suggest the need for a recount. I am sure the will for this exists among the constituents. Please consider what preparations must be made for this? What time deadlines must we meet? How much money?
Please see the last couple paragraphs of this.
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I sent this to the Coloradoan today.
-----Original Message-----
From: bob kinsey [mailto:bobkinsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:07 AM
To: FortOpinion@xxxxxxx; FortNews@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Thank You
To the Editor of the Coloradoan
Thank you for your endorsement and its observation that my campaign
addressed crucial issues ignored by the two corporate party campaigns. This
should call attention to the need for Instant Runoff Voting to replace the
"lesser of two evils" method. We must end the "wasted vote" syndrome. It
marginalizes the important contribution third party candidates make to our
national decision-making. I hope your paper will champion this change of
voting process. It would make possible a vote for each person's preferred
candidate first, while at the same time insuring that the winning candidate
had a majority rather than a plurality of votes. Our current system,
coupled with the "cultural wars" frame of Republicans leaders since Newt
Gingrich, casts elections as a life or death struggle between light and
darkness. Campaigning is reduced to image-making, dominated by huge
expenditures, a lack of intelligent, fact based, rational debate, and even a
justification for breaking all kinds of ethical norms to win for the "forces
of God," (a blasphemy in itself.) Increasingly we have accepted
irregularities as the norm rather than seeking to eliminate them. From the
Kennedy/Nixon Chicago results, to Watergate, to Florida 2000, has been
downward spiral.
Now we are confronted with the possibility of vast election machine fraud in
Ohio and Florida linked with voting machines that have no paper trail. The
scandal is under-reported at the crucial time when something might be done
about it to prevent the election from being inappropriately certified.
The National Council of Secretaries of State with 43% funding from these
voting machine corporations, has been wined and dined by them as a market
for their machines. The machines are easily hacked and evidence is pouring
in that this happened. Voter intimidation is one thing but actual
manipulation of the tally of cast votes is the end of democracy. Three
cheers to Boulder County even if it frustrated our 30 second attention span.
In my own race some puzzling reports exist According to the results
reported in the Denver Post (11-4-04), and eliminating the confusing results
in Longmont/Boulder county, the Presidential electors received a total of
287,606 votes. But the total votes cast in the 17 counties for CO-4 in the
U.S. House of Representatives was only 264,406. We are to believe that
23,200 voters decided not to choose between three candidates for Congress?
Is that possible? Are 4th District voters that stupidly and irresponsibly
angry? un-educated? That number of votes would have been enough to give Mr.
Matsunaka the election even leaving out my 10,920 votes. Is it possible
some fiddling with results occurred? I won't suggest an answer. My point
is that the current results point to a major breakdown at the heart of our
Democratic Republic. Voting is the only thing that stands between us and
violence-- or political dissolution. Investigative journalists, Now is your
time!
Bob Kinsey, Green Party for Congress, CO-4
1219 W Mountain
Fort Collins, CO 80521
303-949-4073
Real Issues, Real Choices are hard to find in the two party corporate system
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