COLORADO: Activists protest electronic voting

[sled]

Activists protest electronic voting

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2549008,00.html

Opponents of the technology gather at the Capitol and question exit-
poll data

By Heath Urie
Denver Post Staff Writer

Sunday, November 21, 2004 -

About 200 protesters and curious onlookers stood at the steps of the
state Capitol on Saturday, with protesters toting signs that read "the
machine ate my vote" and "paper ballots protect democracy."

Organizers said the presidential election results are tainted because
electronic voting machines in parts of the country were inaccurate or
biased.

"There's no reason that any reasonable person should have any
confidence in this election," said Alan Gilbert, a political science
professor at the University of Denver. "We voted on machines that were
provided by a private company and were not subject to public review.
This is a very, very serious thing."

[jdog]

1. From the shadows of the blogosphere!!!

:yourock:

[maryallen]

2. Way to go, Colorado!

[John Q. Citizen]

3. Speaking truth to power in Colo. Go Go Go!

[keepthemhonest]

4. excellent colorado

200 protestor's way to go.
I am going to print out some flyers from bigpath.net
and pass them out this week all over the place

[GetTheRightVote]

5. Way to go, awsome Colorado

We need to do something like that in all the states.

You rock Colorado !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. My Mom is in CO...

NE corner and a few hours away. She can't travel, but she runs the USgenweb site for her county. She can help with the web work! :bounce:

[cilla4progress]

7. SPEAKING OF PROTESTS

Do we know of any protests planned for when the electoral college meets on 12/13?



(I wanted to start a new thread on this, but didn't know how..)

[keepthemhonest]

8. I have not heard of any yet, but i agree I think we need to let the

american people know what has happened, although most are already thinking it ,they just don't think anything is going to be done about it

[pauldp]

9. Turn off the computer and do something!

Yesterday in my little town of San Luis Obispo CA (which is in a very red, county in a blue state), we had about 200 protesters marching through the streets with drummers playing drum cadences and people chanting and holding signs that said things like:

Fair Election? Prove It!
and
NO PAPER TRAIL = NO DEMOCRACY

People, average ordinary people, came out of coffee shops and stores to cheer us on.
IT FELT SOOO GOOOD!
This election fraud stuff and the lack of media coverage or Democratic party attention has literally made me feel like I was going crazy. I've had trouble sleeping and I've been very distracted at work. Not only was this march great therapy, but we got the message to hundreds of people who probably never watch anything but Main Stream Media.

There is only so much we can do on the internet, although sites like DU are critical and invaluable for spreading the word, emails and websites are very easy for people to dismiss. Drums echoing off the buildings of their town are not.

We need to march everywhere, and often. DU will still be there when you get home.


:-)

[Eloriel]

10. And if you want to do something while ON the computer --

there's lots DUers can do. You can go to the Voting Issues forum, sign up here:

VOTE FRAUD WORK (write organize research kick) TEAM SIGN UP (start here)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=201x4560