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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES October 31, 2004 Contacts: GREENS CHALLENGE VOTERS: VOTE, VOTE GREEN, AND
PREPARE FOR NOVEMBER 3! WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders are urging all Americans to vote on Election Day, to vote Green, and to think beyond November 2 and prepare for the next four years, whether the winner is George W. Bush or John Kerry. "Regardless of whether Bush or Kerry wins, the occupation of Iraq will continue, our addiction to climate-wrecking fossil fuels will continue, and 45 million Americans will continue to lack health insurance," said Lisa Weltman, Green candidate for the U.S. House in Michigan's 14th District (Detroit) <http://www.weltman2004.org>. "Both Bush and Kerry are on the wrong side of these issues. John Kerry, if elected, will maintain the Iraq occupation, will allow more oil drilling and a new oil pipeline from Alaska, will keep corporate control over our health coverage, and will support antidemocratic international trade authorities like NAFTA and the WTO." Greens are sending an Election Day challenge to voters who oppose the war on Iraq and the racist war on drugs, who demand real steps to curb global warming, who support single-payer national health insurance and repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, and who desire global democracy instead of global corporate power:
"The 2004 election will be over November 2, but
we'll still need to build a powerful and permanent independent,
noncorporate party," said Tom Hutchings, Green candidate for
California's 33rd Assembly District (San Luis Obispo County/western
Santa Barbara County) <http://www.votetom.org>. Green leaders emphasized the party's grassroots foundation, with expected down-ticket victories on November 2 and record numbers of Green candidates running in Delaware, D.C., Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. "The first step after November 2 is to ensure that the elections were fair and votes were counted accurately," said Jody Grage Haug, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States and active in the Washington Green effort to place Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) on the ballot. "In the wake of the 2000 Florida debacle, the Green Party has called for auditable paper trails of votes, IRV to ensure that the winner has majority support, and other reforms, as well as enforcement of Amendment 14, Section, which penalizes states for obstructing votes. All other crises are surmountable, but engineered elections will spell the end of our democracy." MORE INFORMATION: search: elct |