Video is critical. If you don't have a video, or at least a picture, it's only an allegation. Document the holy heck out of every voting problem encountered.

Hand out pencils to people before they vote.

Touch screens work better with the eraser end of a pencil, than with fingers. This doesn't solve the problem, but it may help those who are forced to use touch screens.

Is video allowed in polling places? Would one be able to video ones own selections?

Equally important to capturing vote switching on individual DREs is for citizens to video where the votes are centrally tabulated Even if you are right up next to the tabulator, public observation of our vote count is impossible - and that is a violation of state election laws. This is where millions of votes can be switched with a simple click of the mouse. Go to your County Registrar of Voters headquarters on election night after the polls close and be sure to video this nontransparent leg of the "election process."

My kid has one of the Sony Walkman I phones, it takes 60+ minutes of 15 fps video w/sound...easy to conceal and upload to the internet. you can put it in your top pocket slid open and shoot without having to hold onto it.

Should have one of those

I am afraid that Obama and the DNC aren't serious about winning.

I truly hope that I am wrong.

McCain seems to be confident of victory....

I registered to comment at the DNC blog, and tried to ask--did ask, till they took it down--why nothing was being done about vote flipping machines and other voting rights issues by Obama campaign and DNC. I was polite, I did not use obscenities, I did not break any rules for commenting. But shortly after the comments were put up--with examples cited from Bradblog--they were taken down as were *other people's comments* on the same issue. Why won't they let us talk about this there? Is it because they're afraid of discouraging people from trying to vote? Or what?

@ 99

McSame is clearly delusional and suffers from Maverick Personality Disorder.

I smell a rat, (99s link)

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he can “guarantee” a win on Nov. 4 in a squeaker victory that won’t be clear until late that night.

(hard time getting on those state servers until everyone goes home, eh John?)

and

Pollster John Zogby said: "Things are trending back for McCain.

(I'm in the tank for McCain, don't tell anyone, says Zog)

SillyGit

Yes, but Karl Rove wants him to win....

Flo

Yer smelling the same rat I am....

Hey, anybody see this yet?

http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/evp

I think its the best response when they try it this time, but the early voting is already shaved or flipped.

And there's also this:

http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/

I think people need to start thinking about more than just voting on election day. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but shit, I'm going to start recruiting people being that I'll be busy that day.

This is why it's a sham: (found this at buzzflash)
Today in Albuquerque: Obama Draws 45,000, plus; McCain, less than 1000.

A right wing radio talk show host (and former gop consultant ... that hides behind "libertarian" when it's convenient) in fear of an Obama win ... said "we must now start a movement, we will figure out what to call it later " In essence he what's to get started undermining an possibly Obama administration ... Hmmm... another . . . movement.

I would like to see a movement that puts truth on track with reality.
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Obama draws well over 100,000 in Denver....

John McCain holds Colorado rallies

McCain spokesman Tom Kise said about 4,000 people were at the Denver event.

40 times more than McCain at the Albuquerque Obama event.
25 times more at the Denver event

And I still keep seeing 5 to 1 for O in early voting?

Who is Shull bitting who here?

The Democracy of America Is On It's Way Home!
by Sharon Jenson

98% of reason is unconscious. The Democratic Party has always been honest enough to believe that if you present the facts, the American public will reasonably, logically see the sense in their ideals. The Republican party does not waste time presenting honest fact to the American public. They instead use simplified sound bytes and verbiage that appeal to and can be easily recognized by simple and sometimes vacant conscience minds. Therefore, the American public must work harder to concentrate on logic and ignore their natural tendency to be somewhat lazy. They must remember reason and logic are unconscious. Corporations have researched this theory for years with the help from psychological professors who have studied the brain and clever advertising. Corporations have invested in various levels of expertise and adjusted their marketing strategies accordingly. ...

[Ed Note: Paragraphs deleted. Please read our rules for commenting. --99]

Wilburrr... ~ so when can we start calling the Anne Pressley murder a m$m media cover up for the fact they OMITTED she was in the movie "w". . .

Think it is time to throw all those voting machines in the parking lot, and run them over with the roller...smash them all, because they are #1) Unreliable!!

Here we see, in Georgia, the goal set for blacks voting is 30% if whites make up 30%.
In early voting it is already at 36%...

Daily Highlights:

* 50,000 voted yesterday (Thursday)
* 40,000 in person, 10,000 mail in
* 210,000 more have already voted early than all of 2004
* African American % - 36%
* Non white % - 36.9%

Link

Obama will fight for the blacks and muslims but McCain and Palin will fight for all Americans.

Obama does not have enough experience to lead in the difficult time that we are facing. We need McCain for foreign affairs and Palin for economy. Palin is smart and McCain is experienced, they are a good combination!

Hokay, enough.

Brad, 99, Most-Highest Des... would a moratorium on outright campaign ads in the comments be appropriate until after the election?

If yer late to the conversation, the point we're trying to make is that There is no horserace !
It's a bunch of crap put up by the CMSM Venezuelan IRI style

serious voter ~ are you experienced . . .

Thx Ed, good link

Well, uhm, where are those early voting #'s posted Flo? I would love to see the #'s so far... posted! Until then, I'm skeptical.

People better be careful what thkey vote for because I don't think that they will be happy with Obama, McCain might not be the greatest but he is better than Obama any dayk of the week.
Mona Wilhite

Did somebody just fart. Proprietary source code is like making the Constitution and the laws of the land secrets...

Hey Zappakitty, symphonies later we're still compromised by what? Again?

Ancient, That's another problem, they don't run the early total votes as they're happening for some reason, maybe so people don't stay home figuring it's in the bag for candidate so and so.
I see miscellaneous reports of people/reporters walking down the lines polling voters, but that's about it.
The proof is in what you see around all of that.
As far as rally turn out goes, I believe that voter enthusiasm does turn into real votes percentage wise.

And you don't think the one percenters would treat us like this?...nah, couldn't happen here

If it wasn't for right wing media manipulation of the normal thought processes that tells you that it's bad to help the poor and downtrodden and it's all about me, there wouldn't be a soul following any Republicanaanite (aka nimrod) candidate around

I was referring to the comments that say "vote so-and-so!"... and nothing else... sometimes at considerable length...

I cannot believe people are saying that McCain and Palin are the better choice. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!! Senator McCain is 72 yrs old with a history of cancer and it is scary to think if something happens to him that Palin will be running America. We need change for all of America no matter what race, and that is what Obama/Biden will do!! Obama/Biden 2008!!

... Sandra said on 10/27/2008 @ 3:51 pm PT...

(snip unsolicited ad)

Y'see... it's not the discussion of the varied unsubtleties of the pre-theft propaganda that sparked my comment but the fact that hereabouts is probably going to get deluged real soon with "ads" from both sides while actual election issues rain down on us...