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Fellow Democrat, The Republicans are trying to do it again! Stealing an election by stopping Democratic votes from being cast or counted. This time we have to stop them -- and with your help, we can. I am writing again to urge you to join me by donating and volunteering your time to support the important work of NoVoterLeftBehind.net. No more 2000s and 2004s! The Republican Party mounted a coordinated, criminal campaign to steal the 2004 Presidential election -- and it worked. Now, as another Election Day draws close, you and I need to stand together to make absolutely certain it doesn't happen again. In state after state, Republican operatives — the party's elite commandos of bare-knuckle politics — are wielding new federal legislation to systematically disenfranchise Democrats. If this year's race is as close as the past two elections, the GOP's nationwide campaign could be large enough to determine the presidency in November ... Since 2003, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, at least 2.7 million new voters have had their applications to register rejected. In addition, at least 1.6 million votes were never counted in the 2004 election … And this year, thanks to new provisions of the Help America Vote Act, the number of discounted votes could surge even higher. You can make a difference right now by supporting NoVoterLeftBehind.net, which is helping to lead the fight to stop voter suppression. Please, sign up now to help -- before it's too late! Yours, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Founder, NoVoterLeftBehind.net   P.S. Make sure to check out the latest headline from www.NoVoterLeftBehind.net: NOVOTERLEFTBEHIND.NET: ONE OUT OF FOUR ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES RIPE FOR THEFT BY REPUBLICANS, RFK, JR. URGES SUPPORT FOR EFFORT TO STOP GOP VOTE SUPPRESSION Donations, Volunteers Needed at NoVoterLeftBehind.net to Expose Republican Tactics, Fight Efforts to Thwart Voters; Democrats Cautioned About Razor-Thin Margins in Key Swing States. WASHINGTON, D.C.///October 28, 2008///Democrats are being warned not to pop those champagne corks just yet. The fact is that the leads for presidential candidate Barack Obama are so slim in five out of nine key toss-up states that Republican vote suppression efforts could still tip the outcome of the 2008 presidential election, according to the experts at NoVoterLeftBehind.net (www.NoVoterLeftBehind.net), which is now accepting donations and volunteers to fight back against the GOP campaign to steal the 2008 election. NoVoterLeftBehind.net (NVLB) founder Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said: "No more 2000s and 2004s! … The Republican Party mounted a coordinated, criminal campaign to steal the 2004 Presidential election -- and it worked. Now, as another election approaches, you and I need to stand together to make absolutely certain it doesn't happen again … In state after state, Republican operatives — the party's elite commandos of bare-knuckle politics — are wielding new federal legislation to systematically disenfranchise Democrats. If this year's race is as close as the past two elections, the GOP's nationwide campaign could be large enough to determine the presidency in November … Since 2003, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, at least 2.7 million new voters have had their applications to register rejected. In addition, at least 1.6 million votes were never counted in the 2004 election … And this year, thanks to new provisions of the Help America Vote Act, the number ! of discounted votes could surge even higher." Where could GOP vote suppression tactics flip the outcome on Election Day? Based on the state-level "poll of poll" survey averages reported at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/#data by RealClearPolitics, the following is evident (as of 5 a.m. EDT on October 27, 2008): There are now six toss-up states (Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Missouri, Indiana and Montana) and six "leaning states" (Colorado, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Georgia and New Mexico). Of these John McCain is leading to some extent in three (Montana, West Virginia and Georgia). Of the remaining nine – over half (5) have Obama ahead by 3.3 percent or less, with razor-thin leads of just 1 percent or less in three states: North Carolina (1 percent): Missouri (1 percent); and Indiana (0.5 percent). Thus, Obama is leading in over half of key toss-up and leaning states by roughly the margin of error or less in the typical poll (3-4 percent). The 69 electoral votes balanced on this knife edge account for more than one in four of the 270 needed to win the White House in the Electoral College. Obama's reported lead of just 2.2 percent in Florida leaves his campaign particularly vulnerable to GOP vote manipulation efforts in the state that was synonymous with the GOP theft of the 2000 election in which Al Gore actually won the popular vote and was still denied the White House. Jennifer Petty, spokesperson for NoVoterLeftBehind.net and executive director Democrats for America's Future, said: "While we remain every bit as hopeful as other Democrats that Obama will be elected President, it would be imprudent to ignore the fact that increasingly desperate Republicans are likely to sink to new lows in order to try and remain in power. NoVoterLeftBehind needs financial support and volunteers to make sure that we can fight back and go toe to toe with the GOP when they try to frustrate the will of the American people in this election." The DAF board of advisors consists of: James Carville; former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich; Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun, former U.S. Senator from the state of Illinois and a 2004 presidential candidate; Donald L. Fowler, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee; David Bonior, former Michigan member of Congress and majority whip of the U.S. House of Representatives; and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former lieutenant governor of the state of Maryland. TAKE ACTION NOW TO SUPPORT NOVOTERLEFTBEHIND.NET!