Reply #8: RESTART PHONE BANKS TO VERIFY VOTE COUNT IN SUSPECT AREAS

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What I think the Lawyers, or someone from the Kerry campaign,
should be doing is to restart up the phone banks to call ALL
of the Voters in precincts that reported suspect numbers, and
confirm who they actually voted for.

Then add up the numbers , and if 5,000 more people said they
voted for Kerry than Blackwell reported, we go and get
affidavits from those people and challenge the election results
based on these affidavits.

Below is a letter I sent to Move On awhile back suggesting
this idea, and I think it will still work.

But we have to start it NOW, since Dec. 7th is creeping !

Any thoughts on this ?

Dave, The Mad Dem :)

p.s. Below is the email I sent to Move On ( I never got a response) :

All,

There is a pragmatic method we can use to Verify both E Voting
and Optical Scan Vote Counts in Ohio and Florida, which can give
the Kerry Legal team the means to challenge the reported counts
for Ohio and/or Florida, and to win the Ohio recount, by proving
that many local precinct counts are incorrect.

We already have in place the resources, organization,
volunteers, data, and phone banks to do this,
since we will simply be doing the same phone bank calling that
ACT, Move On, People for the American Way, Common Cause,
and so many other groups were doing to get the Vote out for Kerry.

We need to have Move On's Leave No Voter Behind organization, ACT, and the other groups that did Voter Outreach, to recontact their phone bank
volunteers for the explicit purpose of making Post Election calls, but targeting only specific precincts or counties in Florida and Ohio that reported questionable voting totals,
meaning precincts or counties with a high percentage of Registered Democrats, but with a high percentage of reported Votes cast for Mr. Bush.

Once we have the phone banks back up, we would call every registered voter in the targeted Precinct/County and ask them the following 3 questions:

1) Were you happy with the Results of the Presidential Election ?
2) Are you pleased that George Bush got re-elected?
3) And, If you don't mind, can you tell me if you voted for Mr. Bush or for Mr. Kerry ?

While many people will not answer question 3, their responses to questions 1 and 2 will obviously give us that answer, and tell us who that person voted for.

We then record that Vote on the Phone banks computer system, just the way we did before the election, and continue calling that precinct until we've
called every registered voter there.

This may sound like a large logistical task, but it's actually small compared to what Move On and ACT did before the election, when 500 Move On Field
Organizers oversaw phone calls to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of voters.

I realize we will need a stated purpose for this survey, but I would simply call it a 'Post Election Survey to evaluate Voter outreach efficiency'.

If we target 10 counties, 5 in Ohio, 5 in Florida, with an average number of 10,000 registered Voters in each county, that's 'only' 100,000 voters called,
a far fewer number than Move On , ACT, and others did before the election.

So this is a VERY practical achievable project.

As a guideline, I would suggest that we contact precincts/counites that have over 65 % registered Democrats, but whose Vote totals were
reported as more than 60 % for Mr. Bush, and where there are less than 10,000 registered voters.

In Florida's Baker County, for example, there were 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and only 24.3% of them Republicans, yet
the reported vote count in Baker County was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what would be expected.

Move On, ACT, and the other phone banks could probably call all 12,887 registered Voters in Baker County in a few days.

And wouldn't it be interesting, if the survey shows that 7,000 of those 12,000 voted for Kerry, instead of the 2,180 Kerry votes that were reported ?

While it would take a few days to get the phone banks back up and functional, if we started making calls by Monday, Nov. 22nd, we could probably
complete calls for 10 targeted areas ( total of 100,000 voters ) by the end of November.

And once we have that data complied, we turn it over to the Legal team, which can use it to demand a recount and and Investigation of both Ohio and Florida.

If you think this idea has merit, PLEASE pass it on to other Move On, ACT, and Kerry campaign staff members who can help restart up the Phone Banks
for 2 to 3 weeks, to make the post election phone calls, and to get us the data we need to prove that both Ohio and Florida were stolen from Kerry.

I don't know the Voting breakdown for all of Ohio's counties, but I have seen the breakdown for Florida's counties, and Jefferson, Liberty, and Calhoun are just 3 Florida counties which meet the above criteria, and which I strongly suspect, direct post election calls to voters would show that the reported counts were grossly in error,
since they all used Optical Scanners to record votes :