Reply #76: TODAY: "We just wear them down" -- Voting machine vendors [View All]

[BevHarris]

Top activists, those on the level of Dr. David Dill, Dr. Douglas Jones, Kim Alexander and Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, are out there running up against the opposition to auditable voting on a daily basis.

I stay in contact with these folks, some more than others. Here's what they are telling me: Do you know that Diebold and other vendors are still totally confident they will win this issue? Here's why:

They say people come up against them, but they just wear them down. Sooner or later, people just give up. That's the chatter behind the scenes.

They aren't worried about a little DU and BBV activism, calling the LWV and such. Sooner or later, we'll "just give up."

Meanwhile, they are steamrolling over America -- holding supposed town meetings about the machines, but burying official notice, and blitzing the local news media with happy-happy joy-joy press releases about how happy people are about the machines.

Please indicate that you are continuing to make contacts. Make just one more -- pick from the list of over 200 in the "Contacts" section at http://www.blackboxvoting.org

As you can see, this issue is REAL and if we don't act, we will get stomped. Let's not let them just "wear us down."

I will call the national office (again) today and have begun the media phase of this, incorporating the urgent need to change minds at LWV and Common Cause in every interview I do.

Bev Harris