DU Researchers: Help On Ohio - Democratic Underground

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Wed Nov-09-05 09:50 AM
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DU Researchers: Help On Ohio

I need you guys to hunker down and look into Ohio because having covered Ohio, I have serious questions about the integrity of the voting results there.

Because the research will be a group effort, someone should take the lead as the group head and then sub-group leaders also: Team DU Ohio or something. Then divide up the research work:

Team DU Ohio A: General 3 County Focus

1). Clermont
2). Butler
3). Warren

Share general findings on DU but more "interesting" phenomenon via less public arena (Maybe Skinner could provide a password protected area for this project?). When done, send findings to me or Brad Friedman (Brad Blog).

Team DU Ohio B: Those in Ohio

1). Go to local dumpsters near counting locations and look for machine tape, ballots, and stockpiled stickers.

2). Go to local GOP offices and look for boxes and shredded materials in the back, if there are any (going by past reports).

3). Demand polling books NOW

4). Go to large warehouses used for some government offices and see if machines in poor areas are stored in larger numbers (that would indicate they were held back)

5). Go to local garbage dumps

6). If you have the time, get a camera and go into minority communities, ask people if they had:

a). They had gotten calls telling them their location for voting had changed (get roughly exact time if possible)
b). If they had gotten letters indicating any change in their location or precinct (get the letter if you can)
c). If they were stopped by police or harassed for any reason (get specifics and if possible, name of person, and contact information)

7). If you really have the time and can organize groups, go door to door in key areas (Clermont for example) and ask people what they voted for.

Again: Share general findings on DU but more "interesting" phenomenon via less public arena (Maybe Skinner could provide a password protected area for this project?). When done, send findings to me or Brad Friedman (Brad Blog).

Team DU Ohio C: Online

1). Names of all local chairs of GOP (who also head up BOE)

2). Of those, narrow your list to where there are couples (Wife is GOP head and husband BOE head, or whatever the roles are)

3). Compare those localities against the largest polling shift, complaints, etc.

4). Check hotels for large groups of "students" arriving during this period.

Share general findings on DU but more "interesting" phenomenon via less public arena (Maybe Skinner could provide a password protected area for this project?). When done, send findings to me or Brad Friedman (Brad Blog).

Team DU Ohio D: Techies/Stat Folks

1). Run analysis on disparity between polls and results

2). Check local online forums, groups, etc... people have to communicate when tech issues need to be organized... see if anything was being discussed that a lay person would not understand

3). Find out who the local contractors were, hired for tech support, usually each county hires a small company. Contact the tech lead on the ground there, ask them what, if anything, they felt seemed "odd"

4). Examine routing for the three counties listed above, were they all routed through regular channels or does there appear to be routing outside of normal channels

5). Those with time, go to the local office for that contracting company and look through dumpster

Not being a techie, I leave the rest of the suggestions to those who would know what to legally look for (legally look for being the operative phrase here... so no hacking please, otherwise, evidence cannot be used).

Again, share general findings on DU but more "interesting" phenomenon via less public arena (Maybe Skinner could provide a password protected area for this project?). When done, send findings to me or Brad Friedman (Brad Blog).

Any other sub-teams you can think of. It is still early enough that information can and should be identified.

If, after this effort, assuming people care enough to really put time and energy into it, the findings show that everything was above board, we can feel comfortable with the results, no matter what they are.

This is my suggestion, feel free to ignore, but an organized investigative effort, one that indie press do not have the resources for, should show one way or another what transpired.

One more thing, team leads should keep both me and Brad updated on findings and results and we can take each item/finding and explore it further.