New Idea for an Effective Campaign on Election Fraud

[Pseudofool]

I think too many of us, those of us who are spreading the word, are doing so in places where people can readily ignore our sentiment.

People ignore signs. People ignore emails. People who read political message boards are already decisively partisan.

I suggest we make a large KISS campaign to message boards which don't deal with politics. We need people to post to Sport boards, Parenting boards, Gardening boards, etc any board people might regularly visit.

Subject lines should be Must Read, or Important Infomation, something vague but not disingenous.

The body should be simple and not outrageous; be sure to line a story from yahoo or the like, not a blog, and not a partisan news paper.

Mine will read.

Apologies I post this out of my sense of American duty.

Congress to Challenge election. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usnw/20041229/pl_usnw/calendar_of_events_leading_to_constitutional_challenge_of_electors_on_1_6_05114_xml (I'd like a stronger story than this, anyone have one?)

ALL voting irregularities favor Bush.

Exit polls (though Main Stream Media won't release them show Kerry wins); Scholars say discrepancy cannot be random. Exit polls are what fueled Ukraine's effort to spot fraud.

Many Voting machine have no paper trail. Nearly ALL Voting machines are owned by SEVERAL virulent Bush-supporters, not necessarily Conversative supporters.

Please don't dismiss as cospiracy theory. Congressmen believe fraud occured so much that they are risking their reputation on this.

Major Media is not reporting this despite Congressional involvement; I encourage you to research on your own accord; infomation will only be available through internet and often partisan sources, so be circumspect. But you will find that the empircal evidence is overwhelming.

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Please join me in this campaign, I think it will have a strong chance to inform a large number of people.

[stellanoir]

1. I feel that your totally right

that in many cases we're more often than not, preaching to the choir and the inevitably circular firing squad ensues. We are losing what's left of our democracy and infiltration of other sites may just rally more of the seemingly slumbering populous to the cause.

Thanks for posting.

[MellowOne]

2. I so agree with you.

I've found it out the hard way. I've had to tone down my discussions.

It's also so difficult to have conversations with people. I'm amazed by people who care more about TV programs or sports scores than the fraud happening behind the scenes. They don't want to talk about it.

[Pseudofool]

3. Who cares about oppression and tyranny

when we don't risk losing our entertainment.

For those interested. This system was predicted in 1940! by Theodore Adorno in his essay the Cultural Industry in his co-authored book the Dialetics of Enlightenment.

He theorized that eventually everyone would work in some capacity as part of an entertainment industry which ultimately provides inefficient products, thus engedering "seeking entertainment" as the primary value and impetus of the population. The system is completely self-perpetuating.

[MellowOne]

4. It also serves as an effective distraction.

Gets our nations minds off the real issues, they would rather be entertained.

[Pithy Cherub]

5. Acute observation and really necessary!

We have to find alternative means to creating a tipping point or reaching critical mass on this issue. In addition to a newsreport, my recommendation would be where they could go to get more information.

Welcome to DU!

[Pseudofool]

7. Can't tell them where to get info...

because it's only available in easily dismissed sites. I fear if I link to any non-mainstream site, I will be dismissed.

Maybe I should just tell them to go to Google in type in Ohio Election Fraud 2004.

That way they will control what they see, and can't reduce it to propaganda as easily.

[emlev]

6. Be very clear about you're asking people to do

Give people small steps they can take to begin participating.
-Email this to your friends
-Call or fax your Senators and say _______.
-Call you local news outlets...

That sort of thing. With phone numbers or links to where people can get them.

[glitch]

8. "We may be preaching to the choir, but the choir is getting bigger."

- Paul Hawken

[Northern Perspective]

9. To quote Faith Popcorn

...customize it on a mass scale.

The more specific you can be, the likelier people are to read it.

In other words, in each posting, mention a specific state or city. Mention a specific act or result. Talk about a particular local/high-profile political figure. Granted, only those from those places or aware of those people will look at it, but if they do, they may be powerfully motivated to find out more. So, provide at least one good additional link which represents a credible source for your information, and a more complete explanation. They are now engaged

And you've got an activist instead of just another reader.

Examples:

"Did you know that there were more votes cast in X county than there were voters registered?"

"Did you know that Kenneth Blackwell, head of the Republican's Bush-Cheney campaign, used his position as Ohio Secretary of State to disenfranchise specific precincts in Cincinatti?"

"Did you know that Bush won x% of the vote in precincts in Y state where there were no paper trails and only Z% in those that allowed for a hand recount."

"Did you know that the US is the only developed country in the world which permits a private corporation to control the voting machines without independent oversight of its programming codes?"

Don't bitch in the general - be outraged in the specific. And give them the phone number, name, web-site or link to follow up.