Idea for exit poll on election day - IMPORTANT!

[Lucky Luciano]

I will tell you one poll that needs to be taken - and I am very serious here. Although the credibility of a poll from this site would be deemed questionable from "the other side," on election day it would be really cool to mobilize a lot of DUers to take exit polls near polling stations and compare the results to the result of the election. I would hope the DUers would be honest regardless of their distaste for bush!!!! In particular, this should be done near those polling places that creepo diebold systems has their potentially fraudulent software installed. Any large statistical disparity should warrant great concern. The question in the event of an apparent bush coup would be - what next? Would there be any way to invalidate a fraudulent election? preparations for a bush coup need to be done now because peeople were not ready for it during his first coup.

Can this idea come to fruition? I am sure that I am not the first person to think of this.

[shraby]

1. Since the polls have to

have back up paper ballots in case the machines quit, maybe it would be a better idea to have people posted outside the polls with a big sign that says ASK FOR A PAPER BALLOT. Plus take an exit poll.

edit: added exit poll.

[Lucky Luciano]

2. sounds good to me.

Any other idea that people can add?

[Lucky Luciano]

3. Also,

to lend credibility to any poll done by DU or a similar organization (Like MoveOn that might have the money to really do it right), an independent auditor should be hired.

[sofa king]

4. What about our new pals the police?

I would love to see off-duty cops volunteer to monitor the polls. While the voting machine gambit concerns me, historically it has been good old fashioned voter intimidation which has served the other side so well.

[left is right]

7. Please no police!!

I remember on Election Day 2004 at noon EST, hearing a radio item saying that African-Americans is several precincts in Florida saying that they felt intimidated by police roadblocks on the main route to their individual polling places. And that many of them if they were brave enough to cross the roadblocks got to their polling place and found that somehow their names had been dropped from the registry. It wouldn't be for several more days that Florida had paid a company to remove felons and anybody who had a similar name to a felon in any state from their voters list.

[wubbathompson]

8. I lived in Florida

and when the hearings were held to see any, and which, African Americans were disenfranchised, if I remember correctly, no one came forward. Am I wrong?

[bobbieinok]

9. as I recall many came forward and the case was settled out of court

so that there wouldn't be an ongoing story.

FL govt wanted the whole thing to go away.

I thot agreeing to this was stupid.

This is what I remember happened; not necessarily what did happen.

[left is right]

6. I think it may be impossible to do post vote polling

on a big enough scale But I think it should be possible to email the local democratic candidate's campaign sites with your name and address, who you voted for, when you voted, and the precinct number. Yes you voluntarily give up your right to a secret ballot but it creates an indisputable paper trail.
Putting in the subject line that "voted for Kerry and the district's congressional candidate" would make it easy to save to a file folder. It has the added bonus that if it is freeped (and why would they?) it might be grounds for a completely new vote--this time using printed ballots that would have to be hand-counted

[Lucky Luciano]

5. My cat's name is Mittens.