Reply #63: Shhhh [View All]

[Eloriel]

Don't give 'em any ideas!!!

I thought it particularly telling that when pushed, her responses were personal attacks ("Bev hung up on Brit Williams," -- which DA reminded me is exactly opposite of what happened!! -- and "Avi Rubin owns stock," which isn't even true to start with, he had unused stock options, tho that's bad enough).

Thanks, Bev.

And thanks to everyone else for all your VERY flattering and encouraging posts. I'm frankly a little awed, but also humbled. I did not all that much really. The real heroes are Bev and DA especially along with a good handful of others who did the work.

Now we must keep at it, and expand our efforts exponentially. We can't give up, and we can't back down. We have to face up to those who would do us harm -- by posting personal information on websites and lies on email lists. We have to be brave, and we have to be fighters.

For many months now I've sat at the edge of this, occasionally doing -- or trying to do -- something like find attorneys. I haven't been all that much help because I haven't seen a way for me TO BE much help. Happily, something apparently clicked, and I'm ready to go full tilt on this. Part of that will be at blackboxvoting.org, and part of that will be elsewhere. DA is NEVER going to another meeting in Georgia alone (tho she had the GA Green Party Exec Dir with her last time, but I missed it). And we're going to start mailing lists and come up with feet-on-the-ground ways to press this issue forward. Bev and Rox have given ENORMOUSLY to this project. And thank God/Goddess for them. But they can't do all of it all by themselves.

I've been thinking more about the little talk Rodgers gave about how onerous those damned paper ballots are. It really was quite instructive. We obviously have a great need to educate our election officials -- and that may take from the county level right on up.

Let's go, folks!! Time's running out on democracy. It's time for the rest of us to become heroes too, right in our own communities.

Eloriel