more on Ohio Voters report fake elections board calls

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: "B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong () pobox com>
Date: October 23, 2004 5:14:03 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Ohio Voters report fake elections board calls

At 02:52 PM 10/23/2004 -0400, David Farber wrote:

> Voters report fake calls
>   Instructions to change polling place don't come from board of
> elections
>   Friday, October 22, 2004
>   Suzanne Hoholik
>   THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
>
>
>
> The caller interrupting a North Side couple's
> dinner earlier this week said he was from the
> Franklin County Board of Elections.

You and fellow IPers may want to check out the Verified Voter  
Foundation and CPSR-run "Election Incident Reporting System"  
(https://voteprotect.org/epc/index.php). This is where phone calls to  
the massive People for the American Way "Election Protection"  
(http://www.electionprotection2004.org) are being logged, disseminated  
and operators either answer questions live or have election observers  
dispatched to the scene.

At the moment it's still a work-in-progress but it appears they're  
already tracking incidents in "early voting" and pre-election  
locations. For instance, here's the incidents in the aforementioned  
Franklin County, Ohio which has 13 reported incidents:

https://voteprotect.org/epc/index.php? 
display=EIRMapCounty&state=Ohio&county=Franklin&cat=ALL&tab=ALL

Check out Miami-Dade County:

https://voteprotect.org/epc/index.php? 
display=EIRMapCounty&state=Florida&county=Miami-Dade&cat=ALL&tab=ALL

or Atkinson County, Georgia which seems to have something interesting  
happening to Hispanic voters:

https://voteprotect.org/epc/index.php? 
display=EIRMapCounty&state=Georgia&county=Atkinson&cat=ALL&tab=ALL

This will be fascinating to watch - I'm volunteering as they not only  
need people to staff phones, polling locations and be mobile, but  
technical experts as well from PHP programmers to database wonks to  
researchers.

Enjoy.

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