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Sign up to hand-count. The Election Defense Alliance (EDA) now has up a HAND COUNT REGISTRY. please go to:
http://electiondefensealliance.org/count/signup.php
to sign up. The list is only for the purpose of hand counts when and if the need arises in your state. There is ALSO an OPTION to sign up for audits, recounts and citizen exit polls. BUT you only need to sign up for hand counts. TRAINING will also be provided by the EDA folks if you sign up at the above link.
SIGN UP BELOW for CITIZEN EXIT POLLING:
This info will be shared ONLY with ANY legitimate EI group (if an unknown group, we will ask for references from know trustworthy EI activists) doing citizen exit polling in the United States. Be sure to put your state and we will try to connect you with other activists in your state who are doing exit polling. Sample surveys, that have been used or suggested, will be provided below the form.
For Florida exit polling, go to www.projectvotecount.com
for more bumperstickers, go to the bumper sticker page
http://electiondefensealliance.org/count/signup.php
to sign up. The list is only for the purpose of hand counts when and if the need arises in your state. There is ALSO an OPTION to sign up for audits, recounts and citizen exit polls. BUT you only need to sign up for hand counts. TRAINING will also be provided by the EDA folks if you sign up at the above link.
SIGN UP BELOW for CITIZEN EXIT POLLING:
This info will be shared ONLY with ANY legitimate EI group (if an unknown group, we will ask for references from know trustworthy EI activists) doing citizen exit polling in the United States. Be sure to put your state and we will try to connect you with other activists in your state who are doing exit polling. Sample surveys, that have been used or suggested, will be provided below the form.
For Florida exit polling, go to www.projectvotecount.com
for more bumperstickers, go to the bumper sticker page
CITIZEN EXIT POLLING
There are three basic types of citizen exit polling:
1. The standard type, as done by Zogby professional pollsters, where every ,say, sixth person is asked to participate in a poll where the polster asks questions and writes down answers. Selecting the voters to be questioned is therefore random.
2. Survey type . everyone asked. The voters are ALL asked to participate, and fill out their own surveys and return them. More participation is attained, as much as 50 to 75%. Parallel elections are an example.
3. Affidavit-survey type, where everyone is asked to participate and sign their names that they attest that they have voted for the choices indicated on the survey. See www.projectvotecount.com
There are three basic types of citizen exit polling:
1. The standard type, as done by Zogby professional pollsters, where every ,say, sixth person is asked to participate in a poll where the polster asks questions and writes down answers. Selecting the voters to be questioned is therefore random.
2. Survey type . everyone asked. The voters are ALL asked to participate, and fill out their own surveys and return them. More participation is attained, as much as 50 to 75%. Parallel elections are an example.
3. Affidavit-survey type, where everyone is asked to participate and sign their names that they attest that they have voted for the choices indicated on the survey. See www.projectvotecount.com
In a Democracy, everybody counts!!!
Hand-Counted Paper Ballots--most secure, most accurate, least expensive, and hardest to manipulate to rig an election. WHY are we letting computerized voting machines vote FOR us?
Is the time to count them a problem? Not if you let the citizens, under strict security controls of course, like a video camera and double checks, count the ballots at the precinct the night after the polls close, AT THE PRECINCT. Then the count can be done in about four hours. They hand count in Canada and Germany and Great Britian, and in much of New Hamphire. For heaven's sake, isn't our Democracy worth learning a new, but intuitive and simple, system? People do the counting as a civic responsibility--they even LIKE it! Pay would be nice, but many would do it for free or for a very little.
On the other hand....
How much would someone pay to rule the world? To control the economy of a large influential nation? To rig an election?
CITIZEN OVERSIGHT of elections is REQUIRED in a free country! How did we ever forget this and give our elections over to corporate control and for-profit interests of vendors?
Is the time to count them a problem? Not if you let the citizens, under strict security controls of course, like a video camera and double checks, count the ballots at the precinct the night after the polls close, AT THE PRECINCT. Then the count can be done in about four hours. They hand count in Canada and Germany and Great Britian, and in much of New Hamphire. For heaven's sake, isn't our Democracy worth learning a new, but intuitive and simple, system? People do the counting as a civic responsibility--they even LIKE it! Pay would be nice, but many would do it for free or for a very little.
On the other hand....
How much would someone pay to rule the world? To control the economy of a large influential nation? To rig an election?
CITIZEN OVERSIGHT of elections is REQUIRED in a free country! How did we ever forget this and give our elections over to corporate control and for-profit interests of vendors?
EXIT POLLS in SOUTH CAROLINA
In the recent Edison/Mitofsky exit polls conducted in the SC Democratic Primary, the pollsters used a survey form, filled out by ALL the voters who chose to participate. They were given a form if they agreed and sat and filled it out and returned it to a single pollster who placed it in a cardboard box. She/he phoned the results in at the closing of the polls at 7 pm. The voters were asked opinion questions, such as how important Bill is to Hillary's campaign, as well as questions of their religion, gender, age, race, and ballot choices. The pollsters reported about 1900 surveys returned from 35 precincts in the state. This survey was clearly for the media to have fodder for interesting news stories, and not to compare poll results with official reported results. Citizen exit polls shoud be designed and carried out with the purpose of determining validity of reported official results, and thus if fraud was likely or not.
In the recent Edison/Mitofsky exit polls conducted in the SC Democratic Primary, the pollsters used a survey form, filled out by ALL the voters who chose to participate. They were given a form if they agreed and sat and filled it out and returned it to a single pollster who placed it in a cardboard box. She/he phoned the results in at the closing of the polls at 7 pm. The voters were asked opinion questions, such as how important Bill is to Hillary's campaign, as well as questions of their religion, gender, age, race, and ballot choices. The pollsters reported about 1900 surveys returned from 35 precincts in the state. This survey was clearly for the media to have fodder for interesting news stories, and not to compare poll results with official reported results. Citizen exit polls shoud be designed and carried out with the purpose of determining validity of reported official results, and thus if fraud was likely or not.
