Update: You can experience the rally through words and pictures: check out JR's Diary on Daily Kos.
Update: Already, about 2,000 people have taken action in support of this rally by joing our "virtual rally" by sending a message to Gov. Jeb Bush.
As I write this, our president, Chellie Pingree, is preparing to speak at a big rally being held in Bayfront Park in Sarasota, Florida, to protest the certification of the Jennings-Buchanan race in Florida's Congressional District #13.
The fact is, more than 18,000 votes in this race were never counted, and never will be. Why? Because they were cast on ES&S I-Votronic paperless electronic voting machines, and for some reason, the machines neglected to register more than 15 percent of the votes cast in this race. (By comparison, slightly more than two percent of absentee voters failed to vote for one of these two candidates.)
Governor Jeb Bush and his Elections Canvassing Board decided to certify the race anyway -- an outrageous decision, when the margin of votes between the two candidates now stands at fewer than 400.
That's why Common Cause is joining the Florida voters at the rally to demand a REVOTE. It's the only solution to this election debacle.
I wish I were there in Sarasota, and maybe you do, too. However, we can add our voices to those of the folks at the rally; we can send a message to Jeb Bush and tell him than a REVOTE is the only was to determine the real winner in Florida's District #13.
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