In search of Ohio volunteers for door to door canvassing

[kitkat65]

PM me if you're interested

[liberalnurse]

1. What are we canvassing about?

[Old and In the Way]

3. Well, a canvass could include an affidavit attesting who you voted vote.

Sort of a reality check on the Ohio election results. Good idea, actually. The aswers could help to put to rest the question of whether there was election fraud in Ohio.

Seems that Republicans would have no problem with this, because Bush got a mandate and won Ohio by such a huge matgin.

[lib_1138]

2. to what end?

nt

[kitkat65]

4. Sorry I wasn't more specific - really tired when I wrote that

There are a lot of issues that need to be addressed. My biggest issues right now are:

1) The Ohio election debacle - have we gotten any real answers?

2) Election reform

What I'd like to see happen is people canvassing their own neighborhoods to document how poorly this election was run. Ask them what their experience was like, did they wait in line?; how long?; was their registration denied?; are they willing to state for the record who they would have or did vote for? I'm open to other questions as well.

At the same time ask if they would be willing to sign petitions for:

1) Definitive election reform at the federal level that includes: a verified paper trail, a machine per voter quota, the requirement that secretaries of state can no longer participate in any form of campaigning for their party, severe penalties if election violations are committed, and no companies shall be allowed to run elections on secret proprietary software.

2) A demand for the governor of Ohio, Bob Taft, to begin an investigation into the Ohio election. Since none of the republican leaders seem to think that anything was wrong with this election, it's going to be a push comes to shove kind of thing, and I think it's fair to ask for a non-partisan investigator.

Those are the things I would like to work on. Let me know if you are interested and if you don't like canvassing - I'm not much of an extrovert myself - there may be other things that you are talented at that you would like to contribute.

Thanks and let me know.

[skippythwndrdog]

5. How do we reconcile what you write,

with the fact that of the 186 Democrats on County Boards of Elections, ZERO have claimed a debacle and that ZERO have made the claim that * actually lost to Senator Kerry?

[kitkat65]

7. I think thousands of voters saying it WAS a debacle trumps

anything the BOE has to say, bipartisan or not.

If you educate as well as audit, you have the opportunity to tell them things they have not heard from the press, and you also have the opportunity to compare the audit to posted results. I'll bet we've only heard a fraction of what was done, be it purging long time voters from the rolls to people having to leave before voting, etc.

It's ambitious but I think it can be done.

[hilster]

6. Can't PM for some reason

I am not much of an extrovert but I would love to help in any way that I can.