Invitation to Ohio Recount: Please RSVP!
From David Cobb and the Cobb-LaMarche team
Greens, Libertarians, Independents, Kucinich-Dean-Kerry Democrats and Republicans [are] ready to restore integrity to our voting system. We insist that the legitimacy of representative government be defended from the flagrant threats to the public's confidence that
this and the previous election have engendered. But a recount
without providing independent oversight of the process will not provide
meaningful feedback on the problems or improve public confidence in the
system or this year's result.
We're asking you to consider coming to Ohio with us.
We estimate we will need nearly 2,000 volunteers to monitor recount activities in all 88 Ohio counties. As I write this, we are still nearly $20,000 shy of our fundraising goal for the Ohio recount (even as we continue to consider the problems in New Mexico and other states). Please send your friends and family to our site and urge them to volunteer and /or contribute to this vital work.
We have asked Holly Hart, of Iowa, to lead our efforts to coordinate the participation of volunteers in this important historical effort to reclaim public confidence in our elections. She needs your help. So far, 600 volunteers have stepped forward. We will need at least 1,400 more before we arrive in Ohio. First she needs help communicating and coordinating with 2,000 people over the next few days.
If you can help organize within Iowa to mobilize volunteers to come to Ohio, and to help us raise this campaign's profile within your community and state, please contact Holly at saveballot@yahoo.com. Holly also needs someone to coordinate buses
to Ohio. Please e-mail your name, phone number, city or town where you live, and how you would like to help.
From an election protest in Denver Nov. 18
Our efforts are already well under way.
– On Monday, Common Cause, the National Voting Rights Institute, Demos, the Fannie Lou Hamer Project and People for the American Way Foundation issued a joint statement in support of the Cobb and Badnarik demand for an Ohio recount.
– In the past week, we have raised over $200,000 of the initial $250,000 our staff has budgeted for this effort.
– On Friday, November 19th, our attorneys delivered a bond to guarantee our $113,600 recount fee.
– We are organizing now to train, house and feed the folks on the ground in Ohio who will monitor the recount.
– Our efforts have now been endorsed by Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
The
corporate media is busy ridiculing our efforts to defend democracy in
Ohio and by extension in the rest of our nation as well. We need
your help to counter the attacks. We are inviting everyone who
has lent their support to this campaign to follow up with letters to
the editor explaining why you are supporting this recount effort.
Click here for ideas on what you might include in such a letter. We need
an election system we can trust. The problems in Florida in 2000
and the problems in Ohio in 2004 will repeat themselves in 2008 unless
we do something about it. Our elections should be administered by
an independent non-partisan commission, and not by the state chairs of
presidential campaigns.
Again we thank you for your participation in this
Democracy Movement. We look forward to seeing you in Ohio.
Yours for a just, sustainable and democratic future,
David Cobb and the entire Cobb-LaMarche Team
Blog For Iowa 