"My primary question is what are we going to do with all of this information that we are gathering?Do we have a legal strategy or plan?"
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Black Box Voting : 1-on-1 Consulting Area: What are we going to do with all this information?
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Posted by From the Mailbag on Tuesday, October 10, 2006:
Very compelling and convincing evidence. You all do remarkable work. I still can't understand why a major study tying exit poll data in with all of this other evidence is not being undertaken but then nobody has
ever asked me about any of this have they.
Aside from that, my primary question is what are we going to do with all of this information that we are gathering?
Do we have a legal strategy or plan?
Are we formulating one? Are we recruiting attorneys who will press home strategic law suits which will begin to address and correct some of these problems? Do we have a fundraising apparatus in place that
will allow us the opportunity to mount these kinds of efforts and challenge the elections in court that we can prove were fraudulently decided?
Without these things, what is all this about anyway?
L.P., Florida
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Bev Harris' reply:
Posted by Bev Harris on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 07:58 pm:
Let me turn that around. What are YOU going to do?
The remarkable work is being done by citizens. They didn't wait for a group to form or funds to be raised or the perfect knock-out punch.
Instead, the evidence you're seeing at Black Box Voting is being collected because individual citizens decided to embark on a specific action, and then they saw it through to its completion.
VoterAction.org is doing a wonderful job with lawsuits. But no, there's no apparatus in place. And the courts take a long, l-o-o-o-n-g time to decide anything. The judicial climate isn't great right now.
This is about taking back control, and you can achieve this if you start at the local level. Now is a good time to bring this up:
Riverside County has just capitulated and WILL BE POSTING THE RESULTS TAPES AT THE POLLING PLACE. This was not the result of a legal strategy or a massive fundraising effort. It was the result of citizens putting their shoulder to the wall.
Progress will be incremental, but it will be steady and make a real difference, if you just walk the walk, each of us doing the work in our own steadfast and imaginative way.
We got into this mess because we sat back and watched and counted on everyone else to fix things. We'll get out of it by taking matters into our own hands. You don't need to cure the world's ills in one fell swoop -- just walk the walk, do the work, and have a little faith in your fellow men and women.
Trust me.
It will work.
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Authors Website: http://www.blackboxvoting.org
Authors Bio:Bev Harris is executive director of Black Box Voting, Inc. an advocacy group committed to restoring citizen oversight to elections.