Contact the DNC about RFK's piece that Ohio was stolen .... Kerry too.

The media is using their silence as a way to refute the "stolen election" story. "They" are working to kill
this story 24/7. We need to bitch and raise hell .... and our leaders need to lead or get the hell out of the
way. Kerry can not remain silent on this issue.

RFK put the facts out and documented them .... Kerry won Ohio .... This not about being a sore loser but
fighting theft of our democracy by truly evil people.

Contacting the DNC

Mailing Address:
Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol St. SE
Washington, DC 20003

Main Phone Number:
202-863-8000

Ask to speak to someone on the chairmen's staff.

http://www.democrats.org/page/s/contact (email form)

Kerry Contact stuff.

http://kerry.senate.gov/v3/contact/email.cfm

Washington D.C.
304 Russell Bldg.
Third Floor
Washington D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2742 - Phone
(202) 224-8525 - Fax

Boston
One Bowdoin Square
Tenth Floor
Boston, MA 02114
(617) 565-8519 - Phone
(617) 248-3870 - Fax

Springfield
Springfield Federal Building
1550 Main Street
Suite 304
Springfield, MA 01101
(413) 785-4610 - Phone
(413) 736-1049 - Fax

Fall River
222 Milliken Place
Suite 312
Fall River, Ma 02721
(508) 677-0522 - Phone
(508) 677-0275 - Fax

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen/1

on problems in Ohio in 2004.

a state by state basis.

This needs to be part of our efforts.

The Ohio analysis actually confirms a lot of what Kerry has said recently - many of the techniques that the Republicans used to suppress the Kerry vote are leagal - though sleazy and undemocratic. Look at the graphic of lost votes:
-Votes lost to long lines is 170,000 per RFK's argument. These are votes never cast. The BI-partisan county election committees supposedly got reports before the election on number of machines allocated by precinct.
-Votes cast at the wrong precinct weren't counted - this was per the letter of Ohio law.

What Kennedy shows is that the Presidential candidate likely did motivate enough people to vot for him. He did his job, in spite of an unprecedented character assignation, a very biased press and misuse of the government as a politic tool but at the state and federal level. He also shows that the Republicans used many loopholes in the voting law to cheat in every way they could.

.... conference and publicly support Kennedy. The data is there .... we need leaders.

the media is using the lack of response as a way to not cover Kennedy's work ....
this would make it very hard for them to "stay that course."

silence = death of democracy.

the dnc needs to rub this in everybody's face. DNC report too.

Relationship between machines per registered voter, voter turnout, and Kerry vote share

More specifically, here are tables for all three counties, which specify the number of precincts, machines per registered voter, and voter turnout, according to the Kerry vote share (percent of voters voting for Kerry). These tables were computed using the data that Professor Walter Mebane used to produce his portion of the 2004 Ohio Election Report sponsored by the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

Lake County

Kerry %     Precincts    Machines/1000 reg. voters    Turnout
20-30       4                3.82                                 67.5%
30-40       32              3.51                                 68.4%
40-50       76              3.55                                 69.1%
50-60       88              3.40                                 66.1%
60-70       15              3.19                                 62.0%
70-80       2                3.10                                 50.0%


Mahoning County

Kerry %     Precincts    Machines/1000 reg. voters    Turnout
30-40       17               6.90                                 68.2%
40-50       51               6.48                                 66.1%
50-60       68               6.48                                 65.6%
60-70       75               6.41                                 62.0%
70-80       42               5.72                                 56.0%
80-90       38               5.01                                 47.6%
90-100     21               5.31                                 50.0%


Franklin County

Kerry %     Precincts    Machines/1000 reg. voters    Turnout
20-30       18              4.02                                 67.8%
30-40       130             3.92                                 66.4%
40-50       236             3.66                                 60.6%
50-60       154             3.32                                 57.1%
60-70       90              2.94                                 51.1%
70-80       57              3.10                                 48.6%
80-90       69              3.08                                 49.4%
90-100     32              3.03                                 47.5%


There are two important things to note from observation of these tables. First, there is a general and significant trend in all three counties for the number of machines per registered voters to be very high in the heaviest Bush precincts and then become progressively lower the higher the Kerry vote. Secondly, voter turnout demonstrated precisely the same relationship, being highest in the heaviest Bush precincts and then becoming progressively lower in the Kerry precincts.

That's how reform will occur.