Urgent Action Alert: Support Senator Barbara Boxer

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Dear Feminist Activists,

Today Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) will join Representatives John Conyers (D-MI) and Stephanie Tubb-Jones (D-OH), as well as several other African-American members of the U.S. House, in objecting to the Ohio presidential election results as Congress certifies the 2004 election. Representative Conyers has issued a 100+ page report documenting serious election irregularities in Ohio in the 2004 presidential election.

If you recall in Fahrenheit 911, no Senators in 2001 stood with African-American members of Congress who objected to the Florida presidential election results.

Senator Boxer, in a historic and courageous move, will stand with the House members today so the Senate and House will be forced to discuss for two hours the election irregularities, which disproportionately disenfranchised African-American and minority voters, women, and students.

We believe Senator Boxer will be targeted by the right-wing for her courageous stand. The women’s movement and progressives must vigorously support her.

Please send an email thanking Senator Boxer for her courage and vision. And please send an email to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) expressing your support for Senator Boxer and urging them to take a leadership role in election reform.

We also believe Senator Boxer will be targeted by talk shows and newspapers. Please show your support for Senator Boxer by writing letters to the editor and calling radio and TV talk shows.

The Ohio election irregularities led to the discarding of some 92,000 ballots, principally in inner city districts. Lack of voting machines in, again, inner city districts led to lines of 4-6 hours where voters who could stay were often forced to stand in the rain. On college campuses, lines were also long, with one college reporting lines that were 11 hours long. For more information on the many problems in Ohio, click here.

We must have election law reform to guarantee a paper trail and to guarantee that voters in metropolitan areas and college communities have the same number of voting machines per number of voters as do voters in the suburbs and exurbs.

Please, send an email now to Senator Reid and Congresswoman Pelosi urging them to support Boxer and lead the fight to reform our election system. And do not forget to thank Senator Boxer for her courage. With champions like Senator Boxer, we can make a difference.

For Equality,

Eleanor Smeal
President
Feminist Majority

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1. can do!

we can't let them be dishonored or ridiculed for standing up for us.



www.cafepress.com/showtheworld

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2. There's already a thankyou note on one think tank's website

patrickhenrythinktank.org