TV Producers are getting seriously interested in Black Box Voting

[BevHarris]

What is needed now, more than anything, is to take the 10 percent public awareness we now have achieved -- not a small feat -- and turn it into 100 percent public awareness. For that, we need TV.

I have a taping on Monday, and have been spending literally hours with ABC, CNN, and CBS bringing them up to speed on the details of the issue.

What is holding back the TV coverage at this point is not what you think: The problem is that they are now seeing what a gigantic problem we have. How do you cover that in 2 minutes? They are seeing that this goes to the very fabric of our democracy, and the system is fundamentally broken -- the certification model itself is flawed, we don't have adequate auditing, and the officials running the system haven't corrected the problems.

The TV people I'm talking with are overwhelmed by the dimensions of the problem, and they are certainly verifying it for themselves at this point. One high level producer, whom I will not name, said this, and I quote: "When you really start looking into it, you just say 'Oh fuck this is really out of control."

I have to get over my intense distaste for TV, which is caused by my desire for privacy and my crappy hairstyle and general fatness. I'm doing the TV anyway now. We have no time to lose.

We can crack TV now. What we need to do is break the issue into many small, simple components.

Suggestions?

Would love to see contributions right here from DU members, as to good pithy short segment topics that I can pitch, both to regional and national. They are really overwhelmed and need catchy, easy-to-understand angles.

Love to get the old-fashioned DU response -- this site has great minds. Let's use 'em and take that 10% awareness higher, through TV.

Bev Harris