Kudos!

Battleground State Voters say: Thank You!

We do not need War More Years.

I helped this group during the primaries and it is a great organization staffed by former attorneys at the DOJ voting rights section. The frontline workers answering the phone calls are mostly providing polling location information, but they also get the first complaints about clueless or incompetent or abusive pollworkers, and these get referred up to "second level" attention, and if necessary, the organization will dispatch a lawyer licensed in the state to the polling place to try to monitor and address the situation.

I haven't made up my mind whether to do it this November, but I probably will.

So if you've lost your home you can't vote? What do homeless people do?

. . . about VOTING . . .
:-P

Tell you what,,,,,, they jolly well double the troops in Ohio,,,,, Ken Blackwell's hydra has been at it for months. They need to watch from before the voting equipment of whichever type leaves storage at the Board of Elections until the final tally is certified. Ted Strickland, the AG and dem Secy of State can only do so much.

Glad to hear about this...

Hey Tena: Dallas related info...

Went there Monday and took a little detour thru Highland Park looking for McCain signs- One! Lots of Sessions, Cornyn, etc...

I have no illusions about them being "blue" but I though it was interesting...

This is why I think McCain erred by swinging right, abandoning all his principles, and whipping up the culture wars again. We don't have time for that crap this year

That is very interesting. Between 2000 and around 2004, we were a sea of yellow ribbons and W stickers. Then they started disappearing.

And they almost totally disappeared from '05 forward. If there aren't a lot of McLame signs in Highland Park, he's in trouble. Obama will carry Dallas Co. - but I knew that going in.

well shit -I still had an old cut saved and I thought I'd overwritten it with this quote from you:

Went there Monday and took a little detour thru Highland Park looking for McCain signs- One! Lots of Sessions, Cornyn, etc...

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Of the two candidates for President, who got the most money from the two financial giants now in the news–Lehman Brothers and AIG?
McCain received $117,500 from Lehman Bros.
Oilbama received $370,524 from Lehman Bros.
How about AIG?

John McCain got $36,875 from AIG
Oilbama raked in $75,899 (+205%)

Oilbama, who voted WITH Bush and Cheney's Big Oil givaway Energy Bill, the guy who claims he is not beholden to special interests, took three times as much money from Lehman Brothers and more than twice as much from AIG.

Can't remember where I read it - I'm sure it was some obscure publication - that the UN asked to send a few teams to monitor some of our voting sites in the '04 election and were turned down.

Other than the fact that the UN teams had to receive permission from a country to monitor elections, the turn-down is practically an indictment of our voting practices.

Other than the fact that the UN teams had to receive permission from a country to monitor elections, the turn-down is practically an indictment of our voting practices

I agree, and I remember that, too.

Carter was talking about getting a UN commission to watch our election in '06, I think.

Maybe '04? I don't remember which election it was.

really good to hear about this-

The best weapon against election fraud is a giant turnout--I hope this group focuses on Rove-targeted must win states--PA, Ohio, Florida.

I think I hit the jackpot. My real-world name is Jerome Phillip Rosen (I never liked the "Jerome" very much.) My Palin name is (ta-da!):

Smoke Strapon Palin.

Good grief!

UN election monitors were not allowed to observe the 2004 election; President Carter's Foundation was refused also. One of the locations was to have been Ohio where extensive violations were in most of the 88 counties. Not to mention the recount which was blatantly illegal in all but 4 counties (if I remember correctly.)
Remember BOEs have a Director Supervisor determined by which party received the most votes in the previous presidential elections. If Jim Lerher (sp?) feels he must refuse to vote to maintain his journalistic integrity, why do only party activists count the votes at the BOE? I'd feel better if the Green Party and Independents with smaller dogs in the fight, counted the votes.
Hundreds of us citizens volunteered as Voter Protectors and were crash trained by lawyers to aid and report polling problems. I was happy to see the lawyers who flew in to help prior to the election count but what came of it all? They were gone before noon on Wednesday. We needed the lawyers at the Recount. Instead, dedicated regular citizens, doctors, professors, college students, were left to observe the illegal recounts and sound the alarm to deaf ears of the democratic party. The same with the 2004 Provincial Ballot debacle that went on for weeks. I called almost 100 voters who were unaware that their ballot had been discarded. The same illegal and immoral techniques are going on now and new ones are being devised as we speak.
My fear is the simple fact that E-voting will be especially easy to tamper with this election because republicans in the privacy of the voting booth will split the ticket only for president and vice president; thus making it a ballot that when re-programed to count for McCain will be believable.

Wesson Scalper Palin

Scalper is good... High School'd be a real bitch with a first name like Wesson tho!

HA!

So, I've donated and I work for a venture capital firm - so i'm counted in the $ donated by the financial industry?

Being afraid does not preclude doing something. Here are some things individuals can do:
1.) volunteer to work with the Lawyers Committee on election day; 2.) ask now for election day off from your work to help other voters get to the poll (for example, post a sign at the low-income & senior apartments with a schedule offering rides to voting places;)
3.) volunteer with voting registration non-profits or party headquarters to drive voters to the BOE to deliver early voting or absentee ballots (in Ohio as well as other states these ballots have to be personally delivered and early voting machines are at BOEs);
4.) ask to help at homeless shelters to register voters, drive voters to the polling place election day & discuss issues;
5.) prepare neighborhood teams to host voters in lines at polling places; watch children, pets, serve cookies, fruit and coffee and juice outside the building as people wait; and,
6.) learn the voting laws in your state and attend the public meetings of your county BOE.
And, of course, work for the candidates informally or formally.
Be ready to fight for a just accounting after the polls have closed ...as long as it takes.

I sure these folks have taken into account the possibility that someone (or group) will attempt to robo-call that 800 number into the ground and tie it up for legitimate callers.