How to Petition the
Federal Government
1)
Go to USA.gov
2)
Click on government agencies and elected
officials.
3)
Contact elected officials.
4)
Under Federal Elected Officials, choose the President.
5)
Fill out his online form and write your comment.
Keep your comment very brief so that, if necessary, you can send the comment
via Twitter. (If you do not have a Twitter account, just go to Twitter.com and
sign up—it is free and very easy!) Keep your comments very short, and do not
include more than one issue for each message. Always remain polite and
nonconfrontational. If you are writing about a bill under consideration, try
always to refer to the bill by name and number. If you do not know the number
of the bill under question, go to Agencies on USA.gov and choose Library of
Congress (LOC). Enter the bill name in the search field, and you will receive
the bill number and information about the bill.
6)
Highlight your message to the President and copy
it with the control/C command to copy.
7)
Go to U.S. senators on the USA.gov site and go to
“choose a senator.” Scroll to your 2 senators and click on “contact.” Then,
fill out each senators’ online form. When you get to the comment field, use
Control/V to paste your comment. You may have to modify your comment to fit the
Senate message.
8)
After you have written to your 2 senators, choose “leadership”
and send the same message to each leader in both parties. Do not avoid sending
messages to senators with whom you disagree on the issue you are discussing.
After all, those are the votes you want to change, anyway. (By using this
technique, you can contact any other senator you wish to contact.)
9)
After you have contacted the Senate, go beck to USA.gov
and select “U.S. representatives.” You will arrive at “Directory of Representatives:”
Click on “By last name,” and enter the last name on the table below. When you
find your representative, fill out his/her online contact form and do exactly
the same thing you did for the senators. The House of Representatives web site
will not allow you to contact leadership or any other representative. They seem
to have made that difficult and not available for people other than the
representative’s own constituency.
Nancy and
I are presently petitioning government to support a bill that will be introduced
in the House on 6 January by Congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama to override the Supreme
Court on the election issue. He will ask the legislative branch of the federal
government to force objective evaluation of the presidential votes in Michigan,
Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania for three reasons:
1.
Voters cannot be accurately identified in those
states.
2. Voters
must be legal residents or green card holders in order to vote.
3. Legal
votes must be submitted within the legal time periods to be counted.
This procedure of legislative override of Supreme
Court decisions is legal and has been used several times in recent years.
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