Green Party 2004 Vice Presidential nominee
Pat LaMarche announced in her acceptance speech that David Cobb's presidential
campaign will support Asa Gordon's promotion of voting rights under Section
2 of the Fourteenth Amendment:
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Greens launch
effort against Electoral College manipulation of presidential elections News
Release August 5, 2008
There are 47
Democratic Presidential electors in 15 red states (states where Bush
received the popular vote) who can elect Kerry president "by the rule
of law", without a recount in any state, and in the bargain democratize
the Electoral College.
"This
is the most amazing proposition that has ever been brought forward by a
non-lawyer and it will, and if it is accurate it could change the whole
outcome of the voting process in the United States, and we will take that
under consideration ... we, we eagerly embrace your suggestion."
_ Rep. John
Conyers (D-MI), Dec. 8th, 2004,
Congressional Hearings on Ohio
Voting Irregularities.
Gordon
vs. Cheney, CASE NUMBER_1:08-cv-01294 JUDGE: Henry H. Kennedy DECK TYPE: TRO / Preliminary Injunction DATE STAMP: 07/28/2008
The civil action seeks relief against the defendant, Vice President Cheney,
who will preside over the tabulation of "unbound Southen electoral states"
on January 6, 2009, who by practice, unsupported by state or federal
statute, traditionally award Presidential Electors on a "winner-take-all
basis".
The civil action alternatively seeks the issuance of a court order providing
proportional apportionment of presidential electors pursuant to 2U.S.C.§6.
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Gordon/Jamison v. Gore DIG Challenges Constitutionality
of Florida's Presidential Electors : December 29th, 2000
Gordon vs. Cheney CASE NUMBER 1:05CV00006 |JUDGE: Henry H. Kennedy |DECK TYPE: TRO
/ Preliminary Injunction | DATE STAMP: 01/04/2005
The Congressional
Research Service(CRS)
report on "The Voting Rights Act of 1965, As Amended: Its
History and Current Issues" (Order Code 95-896 GOV); prepared for
members and committees of Congress, highlights The DIG Civil Action "Gordon
v. Gore" over all the lawsuits filed by the NAACP and other
civil rights organizations, including the ACLU, over the 2000 presidential
election. The CRS report notes that Gordon is "challenging voting
policies and practices in some states electoral processes."
DIG files a Class action
in behalf of all US registered voters in the U.S. District Court for a
writ of mandamus for misfeasance by OFR officials to responsibly inform
State Governors and the Mayor of the District of Columbia of their full
electoral responsibility by NARA's failure to include Section 2 of the
14th Amendment (Amend.14§2) and its enabling statutory code section
6 of title 2 of the United States Code (2U.S.C.§6) in the agency pamphlet
entitled "Provisions of the Constitution and United States Code relating
to Presidential Elections."
The Office
of the Federal Register (OFR) coordinates the functions of the Electoral
College on behalf of the; Archivist of the United States, the States, the
Congress, and the American People. In October of each Presidential election
year, the Archivist sends a letter to the Governor of each State
and the Mayor of the District of Columbia along with an instruction package
prepared by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) that sets out the
States' responsibilities regarding the electoral college. Provisions
of the Constitution and United States Code relating to Presidential Elections
is compiled and published in pamphlet form by the Office of the Federal
Register, National Archives and Records Administration, for use by
the Executives and Electors of the several States in the performance of
their duties in connection with Presidential Elections.
David Best, Howard University law student and a member of the D.C. Statehood
Green Party's Electoral College Task Force (ECTF), Petition for
Review of a Decision of the District of Columbia Board of Elections and
Ethics.
Westlaw: 2004 WL 1233968.
On June 4, the D.C. Court of Appeals decided
in favor of D.C. Statehood Green voter David Best a member of the DCSGP_ECTF
in his lawsuit against the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, which had
refused to tabulate write-in votes cast by some Statehood Green voters
in the January 13 DC primary election. The Court, in its decision,
ordered the Board to count the write-in votes.
DC
RELEASE Court orders Elections Bd to count DC Statehood Green primary write-ins
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September 18, 5 pm Maryland Institute College of Art
(MICA)
Brown Center, Falvey Hall
1301 W. Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore,
MD 21217
As
part of the second annual observance of Constitution Day at MICA, this
panel will feature long-time Guild member and Executive Director of the
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute Ann Fagan Ginger, Asa Gordon of
the Douglass Institute for Government, and Jamil Dakwar of the
ACLU's Human Rights Program.
DATE: Friday, September 16, 2005 TIME:10:30 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. : ( Constitution Day
Commemoration ) PLACE:Falvey Hall, Brown Center Maryland Institute College of Art 1301 W. Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21217
Organizer: Maryland
Institute College of Art and Women for Mutual Security
For additional information, please contact:
MICA's Office of Communications 410-225-2300; pr@mica.edu
Robert Merrill, e-mail rmerrill@mica.edu; phone 240-422-2680
Lenora Foerstel, e-mail foerstel@aol.com; phone 410-730-7483
Lenora Foerstel, American Coordinator, Women for
Mutual Security
Alan Orr, email daorr@yahoo.com; phone 410-225-2350
THE RIGHT TO VOTE ACT An Act to Enforce American Democracy Asa Gordon,
Chair DCSGP_Electoral College Task Force
Exe. Dir. Douglass Institute of Government
Workshop: Fri. 10:45 AM : Plenary: 1:30PM GREEN PARTY
NATIONAL MEETING JULY 21-24,
University of Tulsa / Allen Chapman Activity
Asa Gordon, Chair, Electoral College Task Force, D.C. Statehood Green Party, Guest of Radio Talk Show
Host WILMER LEON "On
With Leon" THE CONSTITUTIONAL 'RIGHT TO VOTE'
Sat. Oct. 23rd. 2004
2pm
1450 AM WOL in Washington, DC
1010 AM WOLB in Baltimore , MD
XM Satellite Radio Channel 169
D.C.
STATEHOOD GREENS ESTABLISH ELECTORAL COLLEGE TASK FORCE
America’s
founders did everything within their power to prevent what is now happening.
But they are no longer with us, so we will have to stop it ourselves. ...
David Lytel
Vanishing Votes! -by
Gregory Palast
[
1 ] In October 29, 2002,
George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Hidden behind its
apple-pie and-motherhood name lies a nasty civil rights time bomb. [
2 ] One million black votes didn't count in
the 2000 presidential election It's not too
hard to get your vote lost -- if some politicians want it to be lost!
Will your vote count
in the next election? Maybe not! How will we even know? VerifiedVoting.org
and the Verified Voting Foundation champion reliable and publicly verifiable
elections in the United States.
Our purpose is to support grass roots groups in their efforts to change
laws and regulations governing voting systems and election administration,
to facilitate communication among them, and to provide a national voice
and lobbying presence. . .
The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in various states
told Ohio Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed
to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
Walden O'Dell is chief executive of Diebold Inc., a company contracted
to install machines in Georgia, North Carolina and other states. (Cleveland
Plain Dealer, 8/28)
http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news/106207171078040.xml?nohio
"Calif.
Bars Use of Some Electronic Voting Machines" By Adam Tanner, Reuters, April 30, 2004
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040430/us_nm/politics_california_voting_dc_4
"E-Voting
- Not Ready For Prime Time" By Faye M. Anderson, BlackElectorate.com, March 22, 2004
http://www.blackelectorate.com/articles.asp?ID=1078
"Hack
the Vote" By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, December 2, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/opinion/02KRUG.html
"Electronic
Voting: What You Need To Know" By William Rivers Pitt, truthout.org, October 20, 2003
http://truthout.org/docs_03/102003A.shtml
"America has surrendered its public voting systems to private corporations
and concealed technologies. The price paid has been the legitimacy of our
democracy." Lynn Landes 11/26/02
This webpage and associated links is the result of a groundbreaking
effort by publicist/writer Bev Harris of Talion.com, journalist Lynn Landes
of EcoTalk.org, and many others to provide fuller coverage of voting machine
technology and the many reasons it is not a secure method of voting. Contact:
lynnlandes@earthlink.net
Just when you thought you couldn't get any more cynical. Guess which
state did not have Federal Observers assigned to it by the U.S. Department
of Justice (DOJ) for the 2002 mid-term election?
"DC
Blue-Green
Voter
X-Change", "make that
vote count" project. An imaginative and revolutionary process
by which Democratic voters in the District of Columbia may "swap" vote
pledges to vote Green with Green Party pledges in selected "swing"
states to vote Democratic to virtually ensure the defeat of George W. Bush
in 2004. VOTESWAP PAGE.
DC Over Dixie A Green Route to 2004
"If I could have convinced
more slaves that they were slaves, I would have freed thousands more."_
Harriet Tubman
D.C. Vote
lobby Coalition: Senate Majority Leader Thomas
A. Daschle (D-S.D.) and Deocratic National Commitee Chairman Terence
R. McAuliffe pledged support after meeting briefly with D.C. Mayor Anthony
A. Williams, Del. Elennor Holmes Norton(D-D.C.) and a coalition of
national and local civil rights organizations to lobby the U.S. Senate
to grant the District full voting representation in Congress. Among
those present at the meeting were the Mexican-American Legal Defense
and Education Fund, D.C. Vote, Stand Up for Democracy,,D.C. elected officials
and heads of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, an organization
of 185 groups, People for the American Way and the Douglass
Institute of Government