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Help Elect Randall Forsberg to US Senate! (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Sun Nov 3 20:44:06 2002
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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 20:43:55 -0500
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
more electoral info for those who believe in voting...
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Subject: Help Elect Randall Forsberg to US Senate!
Please distribute write-in flyers for US Senate, write in
RANDALL FORSBERG
950 Mass Ave, Cambridge
exactly as above with the name in ALL CAPS.
I will get a box of flyers at today's peace rally,
please give them to every voter you can reach.
I also have Stein/Lorenzen/O'Keefe flyers
also Lachelier and Melnechuk soon.
From: "Amy Hendrickson" <AmyH@TeXnology.com>
Subject: Help Elect Randall Forsberg to US Senate!
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Dear Friends,
You may already know that Randall Caroline "Randy" Forsberg is running
as a write-in candidate against John Kerry for U.S. Senator, to give us a
chance to express our outrage at Kerry's vote for the War Powers resolution,
and our opposition to the Iraq war.
We need every peace person in the state to get out and vote for her in order
to have the vote accurately reflect the degree of antiwar sentiment in this
state. You can imagine that there will a good deal of attention paid to this
election by the national press. Even better, if she wins the election we
will have a peace activist in the Senate!
Randy has been working hard to get the word out about her candidacy and the
reason for it. She's had numerous interviews, has spoken on a number of
radio and TV shows, has given a number of speeches, and has had AP coverage,
an article in the Globe and in the Cambridge Chronicle:
http://www.townonline.com/cambridge/news/local_regional/cam_covccforsberg103020
02.htm
(More information below on Randy's lifelong peace activism and splendid
qualifications for the office of Senator)
She's doing her part, now it is up to us to do what we can to make this
happen:
1) The first step is contacting people around the state: please send this
email far and wide and help us contact every peace and progressive group in
the state, to let them know Randy is running and get people out to vote.
You can go to the website and download a flyer, print it up 50 and take them
to malls, T-stops, libraries, bookstores, any place with a lot of traffic.
2) Sign up at the website to help on election day. We hope to have people at
the polls in as many as possible of the 2000 precincts in the state on Nov.
5 to hand out flyers describing how and why to write-in Randall Forsberg for
U.S. Senate. If you can help for an hour or two that day, be sure to go to
the website, http://www.ForsbergforSenate.org
and enter your information in the volunteer page.
3) Join thousands from across New England on the Boston Common at 1pm Nov 3
to oppose war in Iraq. Get a ``Write-in Forsberg'' sign to carry in the
demonstration, display on Monday and take to your polling place on Tuesday.
There are many angry Kerry constituents around the state-- Kerry's aides
reported his constituents were overwhelmingly opposed to the War Powers
resolution; twenty thousand (20,000) people sent emails during the week
before the vote, pleading with the incumbent Senator to vote, "No." Kerry
ignored his constituents.
This is a great opportunity-- Let's make the best of it!
Yours in Peace,
- -- Amy Hendrickson
Committee to Write-in Randall Forsberg, Democrat for U.S. Senate
950 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA 02139, Tel: 617-354-1635
About Randall Forsberg
======================
Randall Forsberg is a registered Democratic write-in candidate. Kerry has no
Republican opponent (only a Libertarian), so a vote for Forsberg would
replace a Democrat who voted for war with a Democrat who will work hard to
oppose it.
Forsberg is a political scientist and arms control expert with a PhD from
MIT. She received a MacArthur Foundation `genius' award for her studies in
defense policy and arms control. She directs the Cambridge-based Institute
for Defense and Disarmament Studies (www.idds.org), a nonprofit think tank
which publishes reference works used by US and other government agencies and
research centers. In 1980 she wrote the ``Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms
Race," the manifesto of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, and she helped
launch and lead the campaign. Her current focus is the Urgent Call to End
the Nuclear Danger, a web-based project she co-founded with Jonathan Schell
to make nuclear arms and foreign policy key issues in the 2004 elections
(www.urgentcall.org).
Randall Forsberg is an internationally known expert on nonproliferation and
arms control, as well as an eloquent advocate for peace and democracy. This
was illustrated in her three visits to Seoul, South Korea, in 2001 to
participate in panels on North-South Korean reconciliation and arms
reductions -- two at the invitation of the South Korean military, and one at
the invitation of South Korean peace activists.
Forsberg brings to the race for the U.S. Senate the qualifications of
leadership, vision, and knowledge needed during this period of crises with
Iraq and North Korea. She has solid, practical, well-developed positions on
how to address international terrorism, how to prevent the spread of weapons
of mass destruction, and how to build a safer and more peaceful world.
Forsberg supports choice, environmental protection, equal pay for women, gay
legal union, universal single-payer health care, prison reform, increased
funding for education, and military spending cuts to pay for these programs;
she opposes fast-track authority and the death penalty.
For information on these positions or on the write-in campaign, please see
http://www.ForsbergforSenate.org
INFO ON WRITE IN VOTING
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You need to write in
RANDALL FORSBERG (all caps) and
950 Mass Ave, Cambridge
Here is more voting info:
From `Running for Office as a Sticker or Write-In Candidate
Published by William Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth
Elections Division
Paper Ballots:
If paper ballots are used in your community, the techniques of a
write-in campaign are simple. The voter writes in the name and
address of the candidate with no political party or other designation,
in one of the spaces provided below the list with the candidates for
that office. The voter is not required to mark an ``X'' beside the
name.
Voting Machines:
For a write-in campaign where lever-type voting machines are used, a
slot is provided above or to the left of the titles of the office the
candidate seeks, and the voter must be instructed to write the name
and address of the candidate, with no political party or other
designation, on the paper in that slot. ``X'' is not necessary on a
machine. Close the slot firmly after writing in the name and address.
Scanner:
If a scanner voting system is used in your community the techniques
for a write-in campaign are similar to those used for paper ballots.
The voter writes in the name and address of the candidate with no
political party or other designation, in the space provided below the
list of candidates for that office. The voter can join together the
arrow pointing to the candidate written-in or fill in the oval next to
the candidate written in. Although, this is not necessary for the
vote to be valid.
Punch Card Voting:
Where Datavote punch card systems are used, the voter uses the inside
of the ballot envelope for write-ins. The title of the office must be
included as well as the name and address of the candidate. The voter
is not required to place an ``X'' beside the name.
Here is a summary:
Paper, Automatic, Shoup, and Scanner: no need to designate office
Datavote: must designate office as well as candidate name and address
You can check a list of voting systems by town here:
http://www.ma.lwv.org/voting_systems/towns.htm
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