Wake Up.....This Voting Bullshit Ended in 2000 !

[RagAss]

And when we're sitting there on the "balls of our asses" in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, without the House...without the Senate....and the Shrub and Rove are smiling and giving the "thumbs up" to the cameras....and the MSM is spinning away about the "Greatest Comeback" since Truman over Dewey.....or whomever the hell beat that guy Dewey....think of all the crap you hurled at us "Tinfoilers" during the past months...and think about how now you know the cold bare facts about the end of this Democratic Republic that we once had and held so dear..........

If I'm wrong I promise I will never return to DU....oh Good Lord...how I pray that I'm wrong...

Peace and Love always.....Rags

[IndyOp]

1. Cut the pre-emptive whining and do something - DAMN IT!

Election Protection Hotline
1-866-OUR-VOTE / 1-866-687-8683
1-(888) VeY-Vota / 1-[phone] para la ayuda en español

Calls to 866-OUR-VOTE will be logged in the Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS). The EIRS is a project of the Verified Voting Foundation, in cooperation with other Election Protection Coalition member organizations, including the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and People for the American Way Foundation. Trained volunteers will staff the Hotline providing immediate, state specific, assistance to callers. Call center operators will inform voters and solve problems on issues such as voter identification requirements, voting machine malfunctions, problems at the polling place, and voter intimidation. Following the 2004 election, the Election Protection Coalition released "Shattering the Myth: An Initial Snapshot of Voter. Disenfranchisement in the 2004 Elections."

Voter complaints from the 2004 and 2005 Elections appear now on the Election Incident Reporting System at http://voteprotect.org/

Voter Alert Line
1-866-MY-VOTE1
Voters will be able to call 1-866-MY-VOTE1 to report problems at the polls or to find out their voting location. Callers will be transferred to their local election board help line and MyVote1 will track whether their call was answered. Hopkins graduate students will be analyzing call patterns. MyVote1 is funded by the Carnegie Corporation and is supported by a consortium of non-partisan advocacy groups and academic institutions, including the Fels Institute, Common Cause, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, the Service Employees International Union, the Reform Institute and We Care America. NBC News is the project's promotional partner. Real-time analysis of the 2006 election will be broadcast exclusively by NBC News, Telemundo and MSNBC.com.

In 2004, the MyVote1 hotline received more than 200,000 calls; provided information about more than 100,000 polling locations; transferred 96,000 calls to local boards of Election; and recorded more than 55,000 voter complaints. An additional 3 million hits were received on the poll locator website, www.mypollingplace.com. In comparison, the Federal Election Assistance Commission hotline only received 700 calls, none of which was recorded. Following the election, the Fels Institute released the "MyVote1 National Election Report: Voice of the Electorate 2004," the first data report of its kind in election history.

During the 2004 Election, MSNBC had an interactive map online that showed the problems reported to the hotline state-by-state. The Voting Problems webpage at MSNBC is at: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4999529/

(The MY VOTE line sounds virtually identical to the 1-888-DEM-VOTE line).

Voter Action E-Voting Hotline
1-888-SAV-VOTE
This hotline is set up to collect information about problems with e-voting or e-poll books - the information will be fed into a centralized database which will also incorporate listings from the EIRS, Verified Voting's Election Transparency Project and Video the Vote.


For citizens, pollworkers & activists:

Watch the Vote
http://www.watchthevote.org/
Watch the Vote is a national outreach campaign to encourage citizens to engage in the most important aspect of our democratic process - the right to vote and have that vote counted.

Pollworkers For Democracy
http://www.pollworkersfordemocracy.org/
Reports from pollworkers and pollwatchers will be entered into the Election Incident Reporting System database.

Video the Vote
http://www.videothevote.org/
Starting this election, citizen journalists—people like you and I—will document problems as they occur. We'll play them online, spread word through blogs and partner websites, doing our part to make sure the full story of our elections is told.

Election Protection Strike Force
Election Fraud Hotline 1-888-VOTETIP
http://www.velvetrevolution.us/electionstrikeforce/

Verified Voting Election Transparency Project
https://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6390
Election Transparency – fill our survey forms about your county’s actions.
Gathering info for best practices


Working Assets
http://www.workingassets.com/election_protection.cfm
We'll text you on election day if there's an urgent issue where your participation -- such as a phone call or carefully-targeted local action -- can make a big difference.

Election Defense Alliance
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/
Independent exit polls, poll closing data collection, etc

Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/protection.php
Electronic Voting Machine Quick Reference Guides - 2006

[Nikki Stone1]

7. I'd nominate your post if I could, IndyOp

But I don't want to nominate another one of these loser threads.

[Jcrowley]

30. Put this up as a post in GD

This should remain at the top of the charts 'til Wednesday.

People should take the OP seriously even if it seems a bit fatalistic.

[Bunny]

2. Well, you're just a little ray of sunshine, aren't you?

[demwing]

3. Dont promiss THAT!

Just come back and say you were wrong.

Damn, whats so bad about being wrong? Nobody thought you were infallible, and nobody will be crushed to find out that you erred.

Of course, should you be right....

[bluestateguy]

4. "If I'm wrong I promise I will never return to DU....oh Good Lord...how I pray that I'm wrong..."

Bookmarked

[RagAss]

8. Thank You...please do......and by the way....

Moderators....how could 74 people have viewed this thread in the first few seconds after I posted it.....Remarkable....

[A-Schwarzenegger]

24. That's why they call it flamebait.

[wryter2000]

13. You took the words right out of my fingers

Bookmarking

[Clinton Crusader]

5. yikes!

:hide:

[smoogatz]

6. Well, I guess we should all just stay home then.

Why bother to donate, volunteer or vote if Ragazz68 says it's pointless?

[RagAss]

12. Just for the record...I voted early here in Florida.....Dem...Dem...Dem..

[smoogatz]

15. Yeah right whatever.

If you say so.

[RagAss]

19. St Johns County.....

[robinlynne]

9. Be an election monitor! We are growing. or videothevote.org!

Go get proof. in writing. in photos. on film.
everyone.
all of you.
send your proof to: opednews.com, tour county registrar, videothevote.org and bradblog.

[danalytical]

10. Oh shut up

Al this fatalistic drama. puhlease! We're taking over after this election. Maybe not the Senate, but the house is ours.

[Earth_First]

11. This is EXACTLY the type of post I called out earlier in the week...

and recieved a barrage of "...if these posts exist, I've yet to see one" responses.

Oh well, I've only 72 more hours to endure this...

[RagAss]

22. and the best new is...you will never have to endure another one

of my posts again....if I'm wrong !!!!

[TAPat]

14. I'm going way out on a limb here -

my personal feelings are none too bright. I have my theories - which I am keeping to myself.

THIS time I'm expecting the worst, period.

That said: GOTV and The Heavens be on our side!

[RagAss]

17. I voted early....and I prayed it would be counted...however....

Electronic in Florida........God only knows......but God doesn't have to vote....

[Trajan]

16. While I appreciate the possibility of fraud ....

I think this is too big to steal ...

I think that the given method for election theft, manipulation of memory cards, lends itself poorly to higher numbers of races ....

I think that, given the high number of seats in play, and the sheer amount of votes that would need to be switched, I think that those who would commit fraud would be hard-pressed to manage the theft, and would NOT be able to do so many things, or change so many races, in one day ....

Its a ten alarm fire ...

It is having EVERY player on EVERY team in the playoffs 'throw the game' ...

I trust NO voting system ... I certainly dont trust the Electronic Voting media ... but I think it is beyond even their ken to alter the entire political landscape .....

I dont think they are capable ...

[KyndCulture]

18. Yawn.

[ProSense]

20. Spread this message instead:

Call for Change - GOTV - Rock the Vote - JUST DO IT

[Sad4world]

21. To all post here

Post back on the 8th, 9th ... however long it takes to manipulate the American Selection process to see if you won. lol

[cali]

23. Keep it to yourself.

We don't need this negative shit less than 4 days from the election. A little self-restraint would be nice.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

25. Asking for restraint from some folks is like asking a baby

to hold in its diarrhea.

[RagAss]

26. yes sir...sorry sir.....

[skipos]

27. You should put your money where your mouth is over at tradesports.com

The odds of the GOP controlling the house and the senate is 1:4
Or you could pick individual races like OH gov, where Blackwell's (R) odds of winning are 1:18.
If you are confident that Dems won't win, I would think this would be a wise investment for you.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

29. Don't tempt him to gamble his allowance. A dollar

is not what it used to be.

[bobbolink]

28. Exactly!! Some better have the integrity to come here and apologize!

The hate from the RW doesn't hurt.. it's the crap from the so-called "liberals" that stings, and does the damage.

[Swamp Rat]

31. "Voting Bullshit?!?"

:wtf:

[RiverStone]

32. step out of your fear...and DO THIS POSITIVE STEP:

http://coalition4visibleballots.homestead.com/EVENTS_NOV_2006.html

Tuesday as going to be a wonderful day for this country and our party! The rethugs have been exposed way beyond redemption; too many people see this now. Relax folks...we are almost there! Damn, its gonna rock!

:toast: :party:

And BTW Rags, when we win in a wonderful way Tuesday; I'd invite you to come back to DU. I figure ya just need some hope and you can take that new hope into the 2008 election.

[in_cog_ni_to]

33. They CAN'T steal it this time!

They have been EXPOSED AND the Democrats are ahead in all the polls. They can't steal it or they'll end up in jail. The MSM is on this story now. It's not just us "conspiracy theorists." THE WORD IS OUT...THE EVOTING MACHINES CAN BE HACKED! They can't do it this time.:rofl:

[TomClash]

34. If we lose the House and Senate

there will be hell to pay.

[Garbo 2004]

35. So what's the point of this thread? Are you trying to discourage people from voting

since according to you it's "bullshit?" If not, what's the point of your post?