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Contact: Sarah Gray
Phone: 541-514-3267
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9 A.M. PDT, December 22, 2004
Hunger
Strike Seeks to stop election certification
Eugene, OR;
December 22, 2004: Sarah Gray of Eugene Oregon will begin
a
hunger strike on December 23rd at Senator Ron Wyden's office
in Eugene,
Oregon. The hunger strike challenges Wyden to
question the validity of the
States' electors by refusing to
ratify the Congressional Certification of
the Electoral
College on January 6th, 2005.
"The 2004 Election voting
irregularities must be investigated," said Sarah
Gray. I
have emailed and telephoned the Senators office and have been
unable
to schedule a conversation with him. "
On
December 22, 2004, Gray will deliver a letter to Senator Wyden's
office
reminding him that this is a time sensitive issue and
that citizens require
a timely response.
Gray is concerned
that we are going through a repeat of the election debacle
of
2000 when investigations eventually turned up extensive evidence
of
fraud. When members of the House of Representative
challenged the vote in
January, 2001, not a single Senator
came forward to join them. This year
once again members of the
House have challenged the validity of the
election, but no
Senator has joined them.
Gray is calling on Senator Wyden to
empower the call for an investigation: "
I implore you to
voice your support for any challenge of the 2004 election
brought
by Members of the House of Representatives", she said.
If
Wyden does not respond positively to the request on December 22,
Gray and
her supporters will begin a vigil in front of his
Eugene office on December
23, 9 AM.
Gray is committed to
continuing the fast until the January 6 certification
of the
election is stopped. " Our voices must be heard and our
votes counted
or our democracy is dead", says Gray.
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Posted by Benjamin Greenberg on December 22, 2004 at 12:01 AM in Oregon | Permalink