FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CITIZENS
FOR LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT (www.legitgov.org) Launches
B.Y.O.B., Bring Your Own (paper) Ballot, Campaign for “Election” 2004
Pittsburgh,
PA; New York, NY; Bristol, CT: Feb. 7, 2004
CONTACT:
Michael Rectenwald and Lori Price, clg_news@legitgov.org
CLG Founder and Chair, Michael D. Rectenwald, announced the CLG's inauguration of the B.Y.O.B., Bring Your Own (paper) Ballot, campaign. The group calls for voters in the 2004 presidential contest to print, fill-out, and notarize their own copy of the CLG paper ballot receipt, as a safeguard against known flaws and vulnerabilities of touch-screen voting and the recent history of discarding votes and overthrowing election results.
With the ruling against paper voting trails in touch-and-go touch-screen states like Florida, the coming national Presidential “election” for 2004 is in jeopardy. Touch-screen voting is notorious for many flaws and software vulnerabilities. Furthermore, as the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported, Wally O’Dell, the CEO of Diebold, one of the leading suppliers of touch-screen voting machines, has pledged his support of G.W. Bush, held fund-raisers, and contributed greatly to his re-selection campaign.
Since America cannot afford a repeat of coup 2000, the CLG is designing a paper ballot receipt, and calling for all voters, of whatever political persuasion, to print and bring their own paper ballot receipts with them to the polls, and to retain them for verification purposes.
The CLG has begun the design of such a paper ballot receipt and will have it ready when the Democratic nominee and other candidates are in place. “It’s a sad statement for American electoral politics that we have to ask citizens to bring their own ballots to verify their votes, but given the abysmal history of this nation in discarding the democratic elections process, we feel such an action is in order,” said Lori Price, CLG General Manager.
The CLG is an
admittedly anti-Bush group: "The Bush coup has eventuated a continuous
onslaught of anti-democratic, anti-worker, anti-women, anti-majority,
anti-environmental, anti-other-than-Big Business policies that have
gravely eroded our personal rights, handed the nation's treasury over
to Bush-friendly looters, ruined our economy, run up deficits, turned
the US into imperialist conquistadors in Afghanistan and Iraq, rejected
the world criminal court and the Kyoto protocol, and gravely injured
our moral and political standing in the court of world opinion,” said
Rectenwald. “But our main objective is a fair and legitimate election
of a legitimate President.”
More
information on the group's activities can be found on their website
at www.legitgov.org.
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You may view this press release at: http://www.legitgov.org/pressrelease_bring_your_own_ballot_020704.html
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