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Black Box Voting 2008 Election Protection Toolkit
Gottesser writes "Bev Harris over at Black Box Voting has done everyone a favor and released her 2008 Election Protection toolkit as an ebook. It's like Cliff notes of Bev's 8+ years of experience on the front lines of the modern voting rights movement. The ebook presents succinct information to get individuals actively involved in the full-contact sport that is democracy. The target audience is those who believe that the political process requires more than just showing up to vote once every four years those who know that something's up with those voting machines. You may remember Bev Harris from her Emmy-nominated HBO documentary 'Hacking Democracy.' I've been working on election integrity issues in Ohio for some time now and have met Bev several times. Her work is nothing less than groundbreaking. Please check it out."
"Look at those Republican assholes, our superhero is guaranteed to win, no matter what!"
Polls suggest a close race. Past decade voting trends suggest a close race. Your optimism just isn't aligned with reality.
And so far it really doesn't look like McCain is going to provide much of a challenge...
I'd hate for something measly like facts to get in your way, but there is the small problem that McCain is leading in the Gallup polls today 49% - 44%. Yup, no challenge at all.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
I'm sick of W's policies and can't wait to get him out of office... McCain looks like more of the same... I'd love to see Obama in office... And so far it really doesn't look like McCain is going to provide much of a challenge...
I fail to see the difference in McCain's and Obama's foreign policy.
Both want to take troops out (eventually) of Iraq to put them in Afghanistan. Both support the giant permanent bases being built in Iraq, which guarentee 50k+ troops even after any "pullout," plus the probably 100k+ contractors.
Both are agressive towards Iran, leaving nothing off the table (including a nuclear first strike). Iran has proven multiple times that they don't have a weapons program and they can legally enrich uranium for legal purposes. They've only been proven to enrich uranium to around 3.7% (you need 90% for weapons grade material).
Both want to give over a billion dollars to Georgia (as does Cheney), which is going to do nothing but provoke Russia even more. Georgia was the aggressor against S. Ossetia. Saakashvili is a NATO puppet who is extremely dangerous (and loves to eat ties).
Putting a new face onto the same terrible foreign policy decisions doesn't change anything.
If you have something that you dont want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt
Both are agressive towards Iran, leaving nothing off the table (including a nuclear first strike).
I'd say that McCains camp would leave direct talks to Ahmadinejad (or whoever else happens to be the head honcho over there at that point) off the table.
Check out Wikipedia's page on jobs created during each president's term.
Sort that chart of jobs created during each president's term by the Average Annual Increase:
(Notice that the sort in wikipedia is text based - after sorting, you have to mentally move the top two entries to the bottom to get the real numeric sort.)
The sort neatly puts ALL democrats at the top of the chart, and ALL republicans at the bottom, with one democrat exception (Roosevelt/Truman, who would have placed third best as a Republican).
That's right, since 1929, the second worst democratic record of job creation beats the best republican record. Now, some of that must be luck, but the evidence is astoundingly strong that having a democratic president is simply much better for the economy than having a republican president.
Remember that, and remember how well trickle down economics worked for Reagan and Bush, the next time you hear McCain say his tax cuts for the rich are just there to keep jobs in America.
For the /. Comunity being a Paid Election Support Worker would me the best safeguard. According to previous BlackBox.org posts, all voting maching contracts come with an Election Day Support Contract. Diebold etc. are required to hire on site technicians for each polling station. These techs are to setup the machines, ensure that they are not tampered with, trouble shoot any voting/printing snafus and take down the machines after polls close.
Bb.org feels these jobs are the "front line" for ensuring fair elections.
These jobs are hiring in your area right now!
P.S. You might want to leave MOST of your experience OFF of your resume, since this is a very low paying temp job, and most everyone here would be considered vastly over qualified.
Ernie Dambach
"It is no small thing to celebrate a simple life -Tolkien
I take issue with your statement that raising tax rates on the rich negatively affects the economy. Do you have any relevant, modern, post 1970 examples of your claim? I would note that in the 1980's and 1990's, in Minnesota, that higher and a more fair tax rates, when the tax rates are measured as a percentage of income, coincided with a much better than average economy for the state. In the last decade, lower taxes in the state have coincided with below average economic performance as compared with the rest of the nation.
Here is my source:
http://minnesotabudgetbites.org/2008/05/21/minnesotas-tax-rankings-hover-around-average/
Impersonating Tycho from Penny Arcade since before there was a PA.