Election Day Response Network

Written by: Ginny Ross on Oct 29, 2006 10:23 AM EST

Linked to groups: DFA Election Rescue Strategy Team

Dear Member
(***Please circulate to EI Leaders involved in E-Day response activities***)

Below is a forward from Rob Kall publisher, OpEdNews.com.

There is a conference call today for EI leaders to coordinate and connect in a national network for election day information collection, analysis, and response. Anyone who is working on local or national election day response efforts please send an email back to me and I will make sure the info is sent to you about the call. The call is today Sunday at 4pm Pacific time (please remember to fall back one hour today).

Of course everyone is going to be extremely busy on election day --- this coordinating effort is meant to help identify roles in three broad categories 1) data/info collection 2) analysis 3) distribution and broadcast and give people the opportunity to give and receive contact information and role information. (Not on the call itself of course, but the groundwork will be laid out.)

Under #3 we have Brad Friedman, Mark Miller, Bob Fitrakis and Thom Hartmann and hopefully Greg Palast who are making arrangements to help broadcast information in as close to real time as possible through whatever means can be arranged. Most of them will be on the call.

Please send a reply my address asap (ginnypdx at comcast dot net) and we will send the notice to you. I also encourage everyone to go to OpEdNews and set up an account so you can report information from your area to this collection point.

Thank you,

Ginny Ross
Portland, OR

From: Rob Kall
Subject: A system for coordinating reports of vote improprieties

OpEdNews has set up a system to help coordinate all reports of vote theft, tampering, manipulation, voter registration purging, etc. Our goal is to help coordinate and enable anyone who has a report, who has a video, to place them all in one central, easily accessible location.

We are set up so people can easiliy register to submit written or video reports as diaries which can be assigned to multiple pages-- by state, county, voting district and subject categories.

We currently have pages for every state and can easily add counties or voting districts.

People can upload their video to youtube, then link to it on OpEdNews, putting it on a state page. We will also use a standard subject tag (or several, if you deem appropriate) like
2006 vote report all
2006 vote report theft electronic
2006 vote report theft long lines
2006 vote report theft voter registration purge
2006 vote report theft misc.

People would siimply sign up as members and submit their reports, videos, photos. We're pretty much set up and ready to go on this-- just need to finalize the subjects.
We have all the states set up and can easily add counties, voting districts and metro areas as requested.
We're willing to modify this "first pass" on the idea as experts and activists suggest.
Suggestions invited.

Rob Kall
http://www.opednews.com,

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