Progressive Democrats Sonoma County [4]

PDS is a local chapter of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA). PDA is a fast-growing and dynamic group of progressive grassroots activists from across the country who work to support other progressive activists locally. PDA exists to carry the progressive agenda from the American grassroots to Congress to guide the development of progressive legislation, fight for its passage into law, and support the realization of progressive policies at the state and local levels.

To learn more about PDA and how it is providing the organizational structure for a unified national progressive grassroots voice, please visit www.pdamerica.org [5].

Sonoma Election Defense is the PD Sonoma election integrity committee.

The Election Defense Committee has regular biweekly meetings, 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month.

Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Coffee Catz
City State Zip: Sebastopol
Description: in Gravenstein Station

Progressive Democrats Sonoma County is a California State Political Action Committee (PAC). We believe that the greatest need of our nation is to redirect the resources of our government from destruction to creation, from war to peace, from military spending to social spending, from sickness to health, from selfish desires to universal needs. The future of humanity and our planet is at stake.

We strive to work in our local community to support the mission and goals of PDA, to support our newly formed California State Democratic Progressive Caucus, and to work collaboratively with like-minded individuals and organizations to achieve our mutual goals — justice and democracy at all levels, and the preservation and restoration of The Commons.

We invite you to join the growing grassroots movement to strengthen progressive values and politics. Political change begins with social movements and ends with politicians — Stand Up! Take Action! Vote!

"PDA is the real thing. The organizers of PDA are smart, tenacious, and committed. PDA stood by my side when we battled the corrupt vote count in Ohio, when we held our hearing on the lies exposed in the Downing Street Minutes, and every single day as we keep our eyes on the prize of ending this war in Iraq. PDA is helping take our party back for our side — and none too soon!"
- Rep. John Conyers, US House of Representatives

Coalition Against Election Fraud formed in response to the numerous reports of voting irregularities and election law violations that took place during the 2004 election. There were 57,000 complaints of voting violations delivered to the House Judiciary Democrats. When hundreds of thousands of voters are affected by machine problems and acts of voter suppression, it calls our American democracy into question.

A delegation of CAEF members visited Washington, D.C. to ask Senators to object to the certification of the election. On January 6, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Sen. Barbara Boxer submitted an objection to the certification of the election, forcing the House and the Senate to break into a two-hour debate on voter disenfranchisement in Ohio. We have transcripts of the House debate and the Senate debate from thomas.loc.gov.

We are pleased that the Massachusetts electors have passed a unanimous resolution [17] calling for an investigation into the voting irregularities in the 2004 Presidential election.

We have audio from our Jan. 3 Rally for the Republic [18] and our December 12 demonstration [19] available for download.

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Taking Action

If you aren't sure what you can do to help, then take a look at our Next Steps [22] flyer.

This link makes it easy to write your election officials in support of paper ballots [23].

Create a letter to your state official [24] to ask that hand-recountable optical scan ballots be used rather than DREs.

Our next meeting will be held on Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 7 pm at 620 Commonwealth Ave (BU biology building [25]) in Boston, Room 117. Do not park in the parking lot in front of the building or you will get towed.

We have a low-volume announcement list [26].
To subscribe, send an email to coalfraud-ann-subscribe@lists.riseup.net [27].

If you want to contact us, please write to reply@caef.us [28]

Links to some outstanding websites:

• bushstole04.com [30] - by Joseph Lopisi, member of Coalition Against Election Fraud
• ref="http://election.solarbus.org">Your home for information on the fight for democracy in America
• National Voting RIghts Institute (NVRI) [31]
• blackboxvoting.org [32] - by Bev Harris
• wheresthepaper.org [33] - by Theresa Hommel

"With persistence, and perseverance, you will be successful." -- Tom Courbat, Executve Director of SAVE R VOTE

A Brief History of Citizen Election Monitoring in Riverside County, CA

Whereas Election Defense Alliance (EDA) is national organization of election integrity advocates and groups, and

Whereas the effectiveness of the EDA is directly proportional to the number of organizations affiliated with it, and

Whereas a primary purpose of EDA is to promote and support open, fair, legal, transparent and auditable elections, and

Whereas EDA has requested that as many organizations as possible with concerns about election integrity affiliate themselves with EDA, and

Whereas the goals of Democracy for America-Temecula Valley (DFA-TV) include open, fair, legal, transparent and auditable elections, and

Whereas the DFA-TV has an election integrity project entitled SAVE R VOTE, and

Whereas the goals of the EDA and the goals of DFA-TV are closely aligned,

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Democracy for America-Temecula Valley hereby officially affiliates itself with Election Defense Alliance.

Passed this 20th day of September, 2006 in Temecula, CA.*

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Maxine Ewig -- Coordinator Jerry Ewig -- Coordinator

*Note: Democracy for America-Temecula Valley changed its name in late 2007 to Citizens for Democracy-Temecula Valley (CfD-TV) but remains the same organization. The election monitoring group SAVE R VOTE is a project of CfD-TV.