[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: BREAKING: Election fraud in Prop 37? - your help can make a difference

Spencer Graves spencer.graves at prodsyse.com
Fri Dec 7 11:58:41 PST 2012 



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Subject: 	BREAKING: Election fraud in Prop 37?
Date: 	Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:29:44 +0000
From: 	Dave, Food Democracy Action! <info at fooddemocracynow.org>
Reply-To: 	Dave, Food Democracy Action! <info at fooddemocracynow.org>
To: 	Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>



    ****Stand up for open and transparent elections!
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*Join us in standing up for open and transparent elections - join us in 
reporting "statistical anomalies" and 6 million votes for Prop 37 !
<http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/721?t=3&akid=686.143688.hQZwl->*

Dear Spencer,

While reports of election fraud have circulated on the Internet, at Food 
Democracy Now! we have been closely monitoring the results as they’ve 
come in and had not heard any credible reports of possible voting 
irregularities - until now.

Yesterday, we received some disturbing news from a voter integrity 
monitor, claiming that possible “statistical anomalies” had been 
detected in 9 counties in California.

According to Francois Choquette, a statistician closely monitoring 
incoming election results in California, there were significant 
“irregularities” in the vote totals for prop 37 to label genetically 
engineered foods that could not be explained by random coincidence.

Right now a team of independent statisticians are analyzing raw voter 
data or “preliminary data from 17 of California's 58 counties”. 
Potential anomalies have been detected in a number of the largest 
precincts in Orange, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Alameda and San Diego 
counties, among others.

And while Food Democracy Now! can’t say if election fraud has taken 
place, we want Prop 37 supporters to be aware of the fact that the 
results from the election are not over and we're asking you to be 
vigilant in standing with us as we call for further inquiry into these 
questionable patterns.

*Join us in standing up for open and transparent elections and to ask 
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen to make sure that the election 
results from Prop 37 are properly counted.* 
<http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/721?t=4&akid=686.143688.hQZwl->

*http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/721?t=6&akid=686.143688.hQZwl- 
<http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/721?t=5&akid=686.143688.hQZwl->*

*The next 24 hours are critical.* Right now county election officials in 
the state of California are required to report their final results to 
the Secretary of State’s office by (today) *Friday December 7^th *. 
According to state law, Secretary of State Debra Bowen has until 
December 14^th to certify the results of the election.

And this is where we have some concern.

On election night the California Secretary of State’s office called the 
election for the No side, declaring that Yes on 37 to label genetically 
engineered foods had failed to pass by a margin of 46.9% to 53.1%, with 
some 4.3 million Californians having been reported voting Yes on 37 by 
the next morning. Since then the ballot proposition to label genetically 
engineered foods has slowly and steadily advanced both its vote total 
and percentage of the total vote.

*California SOS Website Reports 6 Million Votes for Prop 37, Then Votes 
Disappear*

//As of Monday, December 3^rd  at 4:58 pm, the California Secretary of 
State’s office reported that Prop 37 had garnered 48.5% votes to the No 
side’s 51.5%, with 5,986,652 voting to Label GMOs and 6,365,236 
Californians voting against.//

/The following morning, ccording to the California Secretary of State’s 
website the Yes on 37 campaign had received 6,004,628 votes and edged 
down to 48.4% of the vote total. The timestamp on the California 
Secretary of State’s website showed December 4, 2012, 6:04 a.m./

Six million votes is an important milestone for the election and the 
growing movement of millions of Americans that support labeling of 
genetically engineered foods across the country that were inspired by 
Prop 37.

I immediately shared the news via Twitter @food_democracy at 8:40 am PST.

Less than an hour later, the site was no longer showing the 6 million 
vote total. After capturing a screenshot, I Tweeted the image and then 
contacted the Secretary State’s office.

When asked about the discrepancy, the Secretary of State’s office 
claimed their office would no longer being updating the vote total until 
after December 14^th , when the election is required by law to be certified.

When asked why, the Secretary of States’ office claimed that making 
updates to the official site were “no longer cost effective”.

After several calls to the Secretary of State’s office, their staff 
refused to give the number of remaining uncounted ballots and only 
stated that the latest vote totals were posted on the website and this 
information would not be updated until December 14^th . This seems odd, 
since the Secretary of State's website had updated the vote count every 
day until December 4th, when the Yes side briefly appeared above 6 
million votes.

*Join us in standing up for open and transparent elections and to ask 
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen to make sure that the election 
results from Prop 37 are properly counted.* 
<http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/721?t=7&akid=686.143688.hQZwl->

Please share the screenshot below showing more than 6 million votes for 
Prop 37 to label GMOs, this may be our only hope to make sure that open 
and transparent election results are reported in California.

*Click on the link below to share the image of the disappearing 6 
million vote total for Yes on 37 on Twitter.*

Post on Twitter 
<http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/722?t=8&akid=686.143688.hQZwl->

*Click on the link below *to share the image of the disappearing 6 
million vote total for Yes on 37* on Facebook.*

Post on Facebook 
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Now *spread the word* and share this with your friends to stand up for 
transparent elections and your Right to Know!


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*No on 37 Fraudulent Behavior During Campaign
*

Right now we are uncertain if election fraud has taken place, but we 
find the reports and these developments with the California’s Secretary 
of State’s website and their office’s responses troubling. Currently, 
less than 400,000 votes separate the Yes on 37 campaign from the No 
side. The voters of California deserve the truth.

The No on 37 campaign ran one of the dirtiest elections in modern 
history with a constant stream of lies and fraudulent activity. As if 
spending more than $46 million on an endless stream of TV and radio ads 
wasn’t enough, the No on 37 campaign sent more than a half dozen 
fraudulent mailers from Democratic and environmentalist front groups, 
made demonstrably false statements in the official California Voter 
Guide as well as the fraudulent misuse of the official seal of the U.S. 
Food and Drug Administration.

While none of these specific incidents can be used to bring the 
opposition to court or overturn the election, the current vote total 
irregularities taking place in California are concerning.

Right now, 48 hours before the final results vote counts from county 
election officials are to be handed over to the Secretary of State’s 
office, we need a strong showing of support for transparency and democracy.

*Stand up for open and transparent elections, ask California Secretary 
of State Debra Bowen to make sure election results from Prop 37 are 
properly counted.* 
<http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/721?t=12&akid=686.143688.hQZwl->

*http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/721?t=14&akid=686.143688.hQZwl- 
<http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/721?t=13&akid=686.143688.hQZwl->*

*Please stand with us and share this news far and wide*.

Together we have already shown that we can stand up to the most powerful 
corporations on the planet, it’s time to make sure our democracy is as 
safe as our food supply.

Thanks for participating in food democracy,

Dave, Lisa and the Food Democracy Now! Team

*Background*:

1. "Proposition 37: Genetically Engineered Foods Labeling", California 
Secretary of State, December 3, 2012, 4:58 p.m.

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/725?t=16&akid=686.143688.hQZwl- 
<http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/725?t=15&akid=686.143688.hQZwl->

2. “Election fraud in California Prop 37? vote count hits 6 million, 
then CA Secretary of States site loses 18,000 votes? 
pic.twitter.com/hlk4VM7i 
<http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/726?t=17&akid=686.143688.hQZwl->” 
@food_democracy,  December 4, 2012

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/727?t=19&akid=686.143688.hQZwl- 
<http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/727?t=18&akid=686.143688.hQZwl->

3. “Documented Deceptions of No on 37 Campaign”, California Right to 
Know Campaign, November 2, 2012

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/728?t=21&akid=686.143688.hQZwl- 
<http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/728?t=20&akid=686.143688.hQZwl->

4. "Rigged Elections", Op-Ed News, Michael Collins, October 22, 2012

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/731?t=23&akid=686.143688.hQZwl- 
<http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/731?t=22&akid=686.143688.hQZwl->

5. “How to Rig an Election”, Victoria Collier, Harper’s Magazine, 
November 5, 2012

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/729?t=25&akid=686.143688.hQZwl- 
<http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/729?t=24&akid=686.143688.hQZwl->

6. “None Dare Call it Stolen”, Mark Crispin Miller, Harper’s Magazine, 
August 2005

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/730?t=27&akid=686.143688.hQZwl- 
<http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/730?t=26&akid=686.143688.hQZwl->


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