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Consider taking a few minutes to send a few emails and/or call to
preserve democracy: THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE!   Please FORWARD this to
all who care about making every vote count! Thanks, Cheryl

In this post
(1) Update
(2) New Kerry Action from Inside Legal Source: to increase legal
standing to defend and expedite recount he must ask for HIS OWN recount
(3) New Blackwell Action:There is new effort to Call/Write AGAIN even
if your've done it before: its now or never!
(4) How you can volunteer for recount and share transportation and
housing info
(5) The legal firm that is making this all happen is asking for your
help.

( you can also find all these actions at
http://stolenelection2004.com/alerts.html )

Update: While Kerry is publically defending the Green recount, inside
legal sources tell me he may not have enough legal standing to defend
and expedite the recount unless he directly asks for a recount himself
instead of just helping the Greens in their recount.
Meanwhile Blackwell has dragged his feet and won't certify until the
6th even though the counties have reported its vote totals on the 1st.
After the certification,there are two big obstacles to a real thorough
manual count.

First on the 7th, Blackwell is scheduled to send in the results of the
certification and choose electors who would choose Bush for president
to represent Ohio.  What this means is that there would be a slate of
Bush electors from Ohio and if enough legal votes are found for Kerry,
there would either have to be a Congressional challenge and Congress
would have to vote on whether to replace the Kerry electors with the
Bush electors or the Bush electors would have to switch to Kerry, which
is possible but rarely happens.

 As a result, it would be best if Ohio did not recognize this "safe
harbor" date which many states ignore and is not supposed to be
recognized when an election is being challenged anyway (although that
is a matter of interpretation).

Second, under Ohio law, the parties have 5 days to decide to join the
recount, so the recount cannot start until then--unless all
parties--including the Republicans--waive it!  There is a legal hearing
on Fri, the 3rd to try to stop these two things in order to facilitate
the recount that but it might fail.

The inside legal source who has been giving me great info said
clearly,"the only recourse is public pressure!"  That's where you come
in.

>From the information I have gathered from inside legal sources, the
key things to do are

(1) Call/Write  Kerry Campaign and say,"Legal sources say in order to
have enough legal standing to defend and expedite recount you must ask
directly for a recount instead of just helping the Greens in their
recount"

You can send Kerry a quick message here  Note: While this page says
something a little different the sample letter above is using
information which is up to date and has been confirmed by legal
insiders.
http://www.thepen.us/e-fraud.html

--If you wanted to do more you can contact:
http://www.democrats.org/contact for the DNC; Kerry Campaign (not sure
if still active) 202-712-3000, try ext.5377 ;Ohio Democrats
614-221-6563 (voice) 614-221-0721 (fax) dan@ohiodems.org


(2)
(a)Call and write Blackwell and say something like, "The recount should
begin immediately in order to have enough time to have a full manual
recount.  Blackwell should waive the 5 day waiting period to notify
candidates since all candidates already know about recount.   Blackwell
must not send in certification and choose electors on Tues since the
recount would begin after that.  Many states ignore this "safe harbor
day" and it is not appropriate to recognize this deadline before the
recount is finished. Also I urge him to recuse himself from the recount
and appoint someone non-partisan instead."

SEND TO : Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell
Email: blackwell@sos.state.oh.us
Phone:  (614) 466-2585 1-614- 466-2655

(b)Contact the press
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/? command=state_search&state=oh
(c) You can contact the Ohio Governor at
http://governor.ohio.gov/contactinfopage.asp phone: 1614 466-3555,

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(4)If these measures don't work, expect the recount to start on the
11th and end the evening of the 12th.  Both the Democrats and the
Greens are asking for volunteers--they both need thousands!

 If you have rides, housing or frequent flyer miles or absolutely need
them to volunteer for this effort you can list your information and
find each other at http://democrats.com/ohio
(if this link doesn't work you can also contact action@votermarch.org )

To Volunteer for Greens
http://web.greens.org/c/cobb/supporters.cgi?function=volunteer&process=7
or www.votecobb.org


To Volunteer for Democrats
http://www.ohiodems.org/index.php?display=Join&volunteer=Y
or http://ohiodems.org/

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(5)To help the legal firm helping the Greens pay for the legal costs
making this all possible go to
www.nvri.org

Keep checking this page for more urgent action alerts facilitating
recounts and investigating vote fraud, as well as vote fraud
demonstrations around the country
http://www.stolenelection2004.com/alerts.html


Take care,
Cheryl Guttman