Progressive Democrat Issue 96: THE FINAL THREE: Fight the Fraud

There are three Congressional races that still need out attention to round out the 2006 election year. All three are critical because all three address fraud on some level. FL-13 represents a major battle in the fight for election integrity and could lead to one more pick up for Democrats in the House. LA-2 represents a chance to replace an extremely corrupt poltiican who is likely to go to jail with an honest politician. NC-8 is a case where the Republican is trying to prevent the counting of all ballots, including those from areas where military families live. The Republican is just barely ahead and the Democrat picks up more votes each time a batch of uncounted ballots is finally counted. So whether you want to fight election fraud or more run-of-the-mill fraud, these three races deserve your attention.

All three races (described in detail below) can be found on my Final Races for 2006 Act Blue Page.

Christine Jennings Recount Fund

Jennings is running to replace Katherine "Stolen Election" Harris who prevented the 2000 recount in Florida and was rewarded by the Republican Party with this House seat. Harris tried moving on to the Senate, but failed. Jennings is locked in a neck and neck race to replace Harris. But Harris' legacy of election fraud continues as electronic voting machines in this district gave strange results, leading to an unusually large undercount. This suspicious behavior on the voting machines' part could cost Jennings the election. This one race could be the smoking gun that will discredit the eVote machines that do not have a legal paper trail.

This may be a defining moment in the fight against electronic voting machines and election fraud. Jennings is challenging the cout as recorded by the machines and the challenge is to the machines themselves. But this will be a costly battle. Anyone who is concerned about the integrity of our elections should be on board with this one. Or, as they put it at Daily Kos, all "Black Box Activists should put up or shut up". I wouldn't go so far, but this could be THE case that will stop the rush to unreliable, unverifiable electionic voting machines. Please give to help Jennings fight for fair elections, starting with FL-13. This could be precedent setting and we don't want to lose due to lack of money.


Karen Carter Runoff Fund

The incumbent Democrat in LA-2, William Jefferson, was caught red-handed taking bribes. This is one of those cases of Democratic corruption I occasionally have to report while I am reporting on the far more prevalent Republican corruption. But Jefferson is still running for re-election. In Louisiana each race is a non-partisan scramble, and if no one gets over 50% the top two candidates go into a runoff. This year two Democrats made it to the runoff: corrupt William Jefferson and honest Karen Carter. As someone who yells alot about Republican corruption, I really want to emphasize that we need to keep our own house clean. So please help Karen Carter show the Republicans that Democats know how to deal with corruption better than they do. Republicans embrace corrupt Republiacns. Let's show them that Democrats reject corrupt Democrats.


Larry Kissell Recount Fund

In NC-8 the Republican is trying to prevent the counting of provisional ballots and trying to suppress votes in the counties surrounding Ft. Bragg (that's military families, of course!) Larry Kissell is trying to get every vote counted and it is costing him money. This could be another pickup for Dems if we gain just 2 votes per precinct! Let's fight to get every vote counted.

Please donate to one or more of these three final races.

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