Hello history.

[lavendertook]

Wow! I'm going downtown to the protest before the Senate Bldgs tomorrow, and it will indeed be an interesting day. The summary of Rep. Conyer's report is here. You can find your senators' contact addy's here if you want to urge them to stand with Conyers. I heard back from one of mine--doesn't sound like we can count on him. And I just saw a report via mererid that Sen. Boxer has said that if enough people ask her, she will stand with them, so I'm gonna ask before logging off tonight.

Here's what I've been sending out to my senators :

I urge you to stand with Rep. Conyers in challenging the certification of the electoral vote on January 6, 2005. Voting irregularities have been verified and without a properly conducted recount, which has not yet occurred, I cannot accept the results in Ohio and New Mexico. It would be a travesty to the practice of democracy if members of the House of Representatives' Black Caucus stood alone again, as they did in 2000. Thank you.

Then next week is fannishness for me in LA. (-:

Comments

[mererid.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to tell you how much I admire you for all your stalwart efforts in making sure that the voting irregularites are not covered up and silenced, and for your continued optimism and faith in the idea that things can be changed for the better in general. Best of luck tomorrow, sweetie! I'll be keeping you in my thoughts! Hugshugs!!!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Tank you, hon. Well this really isn't optimism and faith--I don't have those. It's just hope without expecting much. I know, because when I was younger I was an optimist. And when I was depressed I tended toward pessimism. Now I got hope back, and I'm operating on hope--which is working well for me. So what resulted today was more than I expected though less than I had hoped, which is pretty good--as Garrison Keillor would put it. (-: What was more than I expected was that Sen. Boxer made a stand for the senate and caused them all to go into briefing; what is less than I hoped is that they would cause such a delay that the media couldn't ignore the historic quality of the moment and had to focus on it --we didn't get that. That door of opportunity did close today, but Boxer's foot in it does give some purchase still. So it's a wait and see still.

[monkey5s.livejournal.com]

The Humanist had a feature in this month's issue about voting machine problems. I enjoyed particularly the one where voting machines in Gahanna (near where I live, it's a satellite community to Columbus) registered votes in the thousands for Bush. Unfortunately, there were fewer than 1000 people in Gahanna who voted. Also enjoyed the county in Indiana where the machines showed they had fewer than 300 people in each precinct- for a total of registered voters in the county that was short by more than 50,000.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Oh, there was an awful lot of that. And something to think about that I learned today from a lawyer working on the investigations in New Mexico: Bush got certified with a win over Kerry in New Mexico by 6000 votes. There are 20,000 votes that have not even been counted yet from minority districts that probably broke mostly for Kerry. Have a nice day. (-; Lalala Hobbits!