[Voterescue] A Call for Citizen Exit Poll Volunteers!

Wed Feb 20 09:34:36 CST 2008

/Dear Fellow VoteRescuer,
/

/To help get this message out, _please_ send out the following to your 
contacts everywhere in Texas.
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/Thank you!
/

/

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*We need _YOU_ to help on a TX Citizen Exit Poll Precinct Team on Tues., 
March 4, 2008.  Sign up at _www.ProjectVoteCount.com._*

This is the first REAL step citizens are taking to "take back" our 
elections here in the Lone Star State.  Because all our votes are now 
counted /secretly /by unreliable and easily-hacked computerized voting 
machines -- [this statement can no longer be challenged because of the 
abundant evidence proving it, causing three states to date to decertify 
their machines] - we /must/ have a way of knowing if they are being 
counted accurately or not.  

On March 4, 2008, Texas Primary Day, you could be greeting your fellow 
citizens as they exit the polling place and collecting crucial voting 
data that _will_ be used /to hold our election officials/ /accountable/ 
if discrepancies between the reported election results and our polls are 
found.

You may have noticed that in the last few major elections, pre-election 
polls and exit polls have been increasingly discredited by the media 
pundits when the polls differ with the reported results.  Never are the 
/election results/ questioned; it is always some flaw in the poll-taking 
that is labeled the culprit.  You will be participating in a nationwide 
effort to not only take back our elections, but to re-establish the 
rock-solid validity of well-conducted exit polls.

*If you live in or near the Austin metro area*, there will be a training 
session (only 1-1/2 hrs long) repeated three separate days at three 
different locations for our volunteers' convenience.  They are as 
follows:/ /

*CENTRAL AUSTIN*: *Tuesday, Feb. 19*, 7 pm at Brave New Books Store, 
1904 Guadalupe near MLK

*NORTH AUSTIN*:  *Saturday, Feb. 23*, 11 am in Bldg. 2, Rm #310 at the 
U. of Phoenix, N. Mopac & Braker /(travel directions below.)/

*SOUTH AUSTIN:*  *Tuesday, Feb. 26*, 7 pm at /Stop Domain/ /Subsidies/ 
Campaign Office, 209 E. Ben White Blvd., just east of South Congress 
Ave. on the EASTBOUND Ben White access road.

//*If you do not live near Austin*, you will be trained using: printed 
materials posted on the Project Vote Count website, downloadable videos, 
e-mails and direct personal phone calls. 

All Precinct Teams will have a Precinct Coordinator who will oversee the 
organizing of the Election Day schedule and the availability of 
poll-taking tools and supplies.

So, to summarize:

*     ~Sign up at _www.ProjectVoteCount.com._*

·            ~If you are in the Austin area, pick one of the 3 Exit Poll 
Training sessions to attend. (For questions, *karen at voterescue.org*.)

·            ~If you are not in the Austin area, download information 
that is available on the Project Vote Count website and hold tight until 
a  Precinct Coordinator contacts you directly.

*So, who are the folks here in Texas organizing this effort?*

We are *VoteRescue*, an election integrity group based in Austin, 
created in early 2005 to get the word out to Texas voters about the 
dangers of computers secretly counting our votes.  Our first galvanizing 
action was to organize a Citizen Parallel Election in Travis County, one 
of the first ever held in this country.  We were primarily educating the 
public about hand-counted paper ballot elections by having them 
experience transparent voting firsthand in stark contrast to casting 
their invisible, electronic ballot inside the poll.  We prided ourselves 
in maintaining strict chain of custody protocols throughout the day and 
counting the paper ballots in public view after the close of polls.

After four successful Citizen Parallel Elections, we decided to shift to 
the Election Verification Exit Poll (EVEP) format, devised by Steven 
Freeman and Ken Warren, in order to bring in the factor of randomness 
which our Parallel Elections always lacked.  Now our effort was able to 
go statistically head to head with the "official" results.  Right out of 
the gate, we were shocked to find such drastic differences between our 
poll results and the announced results of the hand-counted paper ballot 
TX GOP Straw Poll in Ft. Worth on Sept. 1, 2007.  Soon after that, we 
ran exit polls at three Travis County precincts for the November 2007 
constitutional amendment election.  The big success of our second poll 
effort was that several partners from our newly formed statewide 
Coalition, Texans for REAL Elections, pitched in to help.

So, here we are now, with our growing Coalition, boldly joining the 
nationwide effort of Project Vote Count, the biggest effort yet of 
citizens learning the importance of conducting our own elections in full 
public view /without/ the use of fraudulent computers that secretly 
count our votes and, in doing so, violate the most basic of all our 
democratic rights.. 

Please visit our website *www.VoteRescue.org 
<http://www.VoteRescue.org>*  to learn more about us and to link to the 
numerous studies by computer experts in CA, OH and CO that have 
unanimously condemned the use of computers to count our votes. 
 (*www.TexansForRealElections.org 
<http://www.TexansForRealElections.org>* is currently undergoing major 
changes and will be up and running again soon.)   For questions, e-mail 
*karen at voterescue.org.*

*
Sign up at _www.ProjectVoteCount.com._*

Here are two terrific articles about Citizen Exit Polls written by the 
PROJECT VOTE COUNT Ohio State Coordinator, Marj Creech.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mj_creec_080211_three_little_words_t.htm 

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_mj_creec_080204_florida_voters_sign_.htm

Thank you for knowing it is time to save our elections.

*_Driving Directions to the Univ. of Phoenix at *10801 N. Mopac, Bldg. 
2, Suite 310, Austin Tx: *_**_
_**Going North on Mopac* exit Braker and stay on access road. Go past 
Braker Lane while on access road and take 2nd right to entrance into 
Braker Pointe. Located in Building 2 - 3rd Floor (farthest North building).
*Going South on Mopac* exit Braker, take left on Braker crossing over 
Mopac, take left at first light onto access road. Take 2nd right 
entrance into Braker Pointe. Located in Building 2 - 3rd Floor (farthest 
North building).

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