Reply #47: Here are my thoughts about all this.

[crispini]

Ever since I became aware that there was a BlackBoxVoting.ORG, and a BlackBoxVoting.COM, both very LOUDLY saying that they had nothing to do with each other, my little warning meter went off.

I have a lot of experience as an activist in various political and charitable organizations. One of the things I have noticed is that these kinds of "divorces" only happen when EGO gets involved. Activists are hot-headed, passionate people, who care a great deal and have loud public disagreements, but usually, they are able to put aside their differences and both sides can often suck it up and humble themselves enough to patch up the argument. That, quite obviously, didn't happen in this case.

Or, just two weeks ago, she got kinda torqued off about Elorial's threads over in Voting Issues. They were titled BBV Cleanup Crew. They're probably still not that far back, please go look. She came on the thread, very brusquely, and DEMANDED that the name of the thread be changed. She said something like "I have spoken to my lawyers about this." And she made a veiled accusation about Elorial's motivies. She really did not handle it well.

Actions speak louder than words. And the actions in this case are telling me that there's an awful lot of EGO involved on the part of Ms. Harris.