Election Forum Regulars, KOEBies & small "d" democrats: come to Nashville

[Fly by night]

The "Nash-ional" conference information and registration forms are now on-line at this link:

www.freepress.org/conf.php

So all you fellow DUers who have kept the election fraud flame burning brightly (and the mountain of evidence growing) over the past five months, please join us for this chance to come together for three days of updates, strategizing and meeting face-to-face in Nashville on April 8-10.

So far,we have people committed to come from Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, California, Washington, New Mexico, Connecticut, Utah, Wisconsin, New York, Massachusetts, Alabama, Illinois ... and the list keeps growing. So please help me keep this thread kicked today by saying on the thread if you're coming and from what state. (I would love to hear from a lot of Orange Staters and other mid-South DUers today saying that they're coming).

And please help us promote the conference to your friends and family and to any groups that you're a part of with an active interest in election reform. We would love to help entertain and continue the education of the grassroots election reformers from all across the country by bringing together a stellar group of presenters and by giving all of us a chance to meet each other. (Come on, KOEBies, you've been dying to get together. What better place than springtime in the South?)

So go register to attend and support the conference, spread the word and keep this thread kicked for a while. (For people who can't come but who can support the conference otherwise, we will work to provide twelve hours of videotape of the conference's plenary sessions.)

Thanks, folks, for all your help and support in getting this to happen. The Orange State (and hundreds of researchers, election reform leaders and energized grassroots warriors) await you.... And after all, aren't we the ones we have been waiting for? See y'all soon.

[Fly by night]

1. One kick before I go prune thornless blackberries (and get ready)...

[Fly by night]

2. and New Hampshire makes nineteen different states coming

Just heard from a NH activist. Hope to hear from many of you that you're coming to join us in April.

This will be a worthy Gathering.

[emlev]

3. Yeah, and Blue-Greens, too! n/t

[Fly by night]

4. The conference speakers list (still growing)

Twenty nine speakers and growing:

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE 2004 ELECTION
AND THE NEED FOR ELECTION REFORM
NASHVILLE, TN APRIL 8-10,2005

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS (in rough order of appearance)

Bernard Ellis, Gathering To Save Our Democracy
Civil rights leaders: Tommie Morton-Young, Sonnye Dixon, Charles Kimbrough
Michael Grant, TN NAACP Statewide coordinator, Voting Rights Act celebrations
Cliff Arnebeck, Moss v. Bush
Bob Fitrakis, Moss v. Bush, www.freepress.org
Leatrice Tolls, Ohio recount volunteer
R.H. Phillips, Ohio election fraud researcher
Joanne Roush, Ohio recount volunteer
Bernard Windham, Election Incident Reporting System
Judith Alter, New Mexico
Paul Lehto, Washington state
John Gideon, votersunite.org
Kathy Dopp, USCountVotes
Jonathan Simon, exit poll researcher
Brad Friedman, BradBlog/Velvet Revolution
Democratic Underground spokesman
David Cobb, Presidential candidate, Green Party
Lara Schaffer, Verified Voting Consortium
Susan Truitt, CASE-America
Phil Fry, CASE-Ohio
Larry Quick, National Ballot Integrity Project
Teresa Hommel, Where’s The Paper
Larry English, Information Impact Intl
David Lytel, Honest Elections Campaign
Clinton Curtis, Whistle-Blower
Andy Stephenson, election audit expert
Emily Levy, election fraud researcher
(and many more to come)

The conference itself will run in Nashville from 5:00 pm Friday, April 8 until 6:00 pm, Saturday, April 9. However, we are also scheduling pre-conference (early Friday afternoon) and post-conference (Sunday morning) discussion groups on topics of interest to the election reform and election justice movement. Topics will include:

1. Worthy (or emerging) state-level election reform models
2. Conducting an election audit: what is required?
3. Be the media: Strategies for increasing public awareness of election reform
4. A status report on Tennessee’s election reform legislation
5. Essential elements of a free, fair and verifiable election
6. Thinking & Acting for the Country: National Election Reform Strategies & Movements
7. Election Statistics 301 – An even more detailed review of the “data”
8. Electronic voting – the good, the bad and the really bad (and what to do about it)


Looking forward to an amazing congregation of speakers and activists. The Orange State welcomes all of you -- come join us.

[Helga Scow Stern]

10. Did you invite those guys on the Brazile committee?

I sure hope they come.

[Fly by night]

5. The venues for the conference plenary sessions have been set.

For the Friday evening plenary session, we'll be in the historic Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church, which seats almost 500 people. With our opening panel discussing what it took to win the right to vote for many of our citizens in the 1960s and the following panels discussing current serious threats to our democracy as evidenced in at least five states (Ohio, Florida, New Mexico, Washington, North Carolina), we should fill the church.

On Saturday, it looks like we will be at Benton Chapel on the campus of Vanderbilt University. We held a very successful Gathering there back on January 2, and we appreciate the chance to use this beautiful facility again. Panels will include a review of the 2004 election research evidence, the role of the media in the post-election period and current efforts to achieve election reform and election justice. Again, we are looking for a full house on that day also.

Be sure to visit the conference link and sign up to attend and/or support the conference now.

The link is www.freepress.org/conf.php

[crispini]

6. Kick for the conference.

I haven't yet asked my boss for the time off but I will contribute whether or not I can come.

Oh, and if KO can make it, screw asking the boss for time off -- I'll just BE THERE, job or no job. :evilgrin:

[Helga Scow Stern]

7. I will try to come from California.

Any suggestions on where to stay inexpensively?

[Fly by night]

9. We're trying to round up housing ...

On the registration form at www.freepress.org/conf.php , you can indicate whether you would like free housing with one of our volunteers (we'll do our best to accomodate as many folks as possible). We'll also send a list of hotels to conference registrants soon.

Sure hope you can join us. So far, we have folks coming from 20 states.

[crispini]

8. kick

for the linky.