Markos is fond of people-powered politics, and here is an answer to the dilemma that many Kossacks fear, that all of our efforts to build for Democratic victory on election day will be for naught as electro-wizards push their little red buttons on election day to guarantee a victory for the Republicans. The once upon a time tin-foil position of electronically stolen elections is going mainstream as
Old Media sources start to report the story. The
hopeless, planless, let's just surrender despair of some needs an answer, and I think that I have found part of it.
My good friend, a lawyer who obsesses about engineered election results and won me over to the wisdom of her position, sent me an e-mail this morning with the following:
With increased consciousness of the dangers of electronic vote-counting technology, there is increasing grassroots pressure for independent election verification. In elections around the world, public-domain exit polls are central to such efforts. Unfortunately, US media consortium exit pollsters have announced that they will no longer release any data even to their media clients until they can "correct" their numbers so as to make them conform to the official count. In other words, what they report is no longer exit poll data at all, but rather a meaningless affirmation of official numbers.
Anyone who believes the Republicans are morally incapable of stealing an election is in Aristophanes's Cloud Cuckooland. We know as an incontrovertible fact that they were willing to do anything, absolutely anything to steal the election in 2000 even though everyone knew Al Gore had won the election. We know that they failed to protect adolescent boys so they could maintain a congressional seat. We know they are capable of illegal wars. We know they are capable of subverting the Constitution. We know they are capable of even torture. Why anyone finds it farfetched that they are capable of stealing elections seems to me utterly out-of-touch with reality; it is not a reality-based assessment of the data that we have. On November 8, if we feel like they hoodwinked us again, the Republicans' retort will sound like, "Got milk?" 'cuz our data will be sketchy at best
What can we do to verify the votes on election day when the US media consortium has given up the ghost on honest reports of exit poll results?
We shall get our own exit poll results. How is that for people-powered politics?
More from my friend's e-mail:
To obtain an honest assessment of how people voted and whether or not machines are recording votes accurately, groups around the nation have developed plans to conduct exit polls. We are pleased to announce that several groups at the forefront of the national election integrity movement groups pushing for independent exit polls are will be coordinating in this effort under the banner of the Vote Count Protection Project.
The combined exit poll will implemented by Kenneth Warren of The Warren Poll, Steven F. Freeman of the University of Pennsylvania, and Jonathan Simon of the Election Defense Alliance. At the same time, election data forensics will be implemented by Stephanie F. Singer of Campaign Scientific and Bruce O'Dell of the Election Defense Alliance.
For more information, go here.
And for still more information, go here.