BBV: 208 to Go??? Your help needed.

[Eloriel]

One of the go-getters on my mailing list got the issue on MoveOn, and it's enjoyed some success. People ARE interested in it. But we need to push it a bit. Please go vote. It would be SO helpful if MoveOn were to pick this up.

Eloriel

Here's Cat's status report:

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On the MoveOn ActionForum, our action on computerized voting has shifted from the #1 position to #3. There have been 92 total responses; 84 agree and 8 disagree.

The issues that have moved ahead of ours are also of vital importance. However, without success in our action we will likely lose our representative democracy. This has to stay a #1 priority.

The average importance scores, with 1 being the lowest, are:

6% - 1 stars
0% - 2 stars
6% - 3 stars
7% - 4 stars
79% - 5 stars

Thanks to all who voted. For those who haven't yet, please take the time to do so today, enlist your your friends and family, and send emails to your lists. We may not all agree on the shape of the ideal fixes for these computerized voting systems, but those details can be worked out later, once we have mass visibility.

Voting in this forum is a smallaction that we can all take which could make an enormous difference in getting this issue into the national spotlight. It also gives our movement a place for a "blog-like" conversation that has international visibility!

To find the action, go to: http://www.moveon.org. At the bottom of the page, click on the link: "Speak out. Help set MoveOn's agenda by sharing your thoughts on great goals for our nation in our unique ActionForum."

To vote, you need to sign on to the forum, creating a user name and password.

Thanks.

Cat

Note: I'm not certain this is true, but one of the responders said that it takes 300 responses to move this into a MoveOn action. If that's so, we have 208 to go!!
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[madfloridian]

1. I wish they did not require real name, occupation, and city on the forum.

This keeps me from posting there. I have good reasons for this caution. I am proud to be associated with the group, and I do a lot of the action stuff. I just do not want my name, occupation and city on the forum. I don't like to do that.

Otherwise I would vote.

[gully]

2. done thanks!

Signed it previously.

Keep it kicked gang :kick:

I wonder if the admins would 'pin' this so it stays at the top?

[Eloriel]

3. Boy

This sank like a rock.

:kick:

Eloriel

[shirlden]

6. Sunday afternoon is bad

I have learned you really have to work to keep a thread up on Sunday.
Just keep kicking until the games are over and the sun goes down.

:kick:

[E_Zapata]

19. It took me till the very end of your post to figure out what it is about

vote?
for what?
with who?
why?

Maybe start a new thread tomorrow and identify what you are talking about. It is only because I am versed in the subject that I could glean what it was about.

Just a thought on the sinking nature of this post.

[madfloridian]

4. I'll kick it for you.

:kick:

But they need to work out something on the message boards.

[shirlden]

5. Done

:kick:

[Pastiche423]

7. Done!

[gristy]

8. Done

I also emailed about 20 people with instructions to do the same.

[Cheswick2.0]

9. done

and kick

[Junkdrawer]

10. Done

[leftchick]

11. kick

:kick:

[artr2]

12. Done

and a kick

[Eloriel]

13. I knew we could count on you guys

More?

:kick:

Eloriel

[gristy]

14. My dad signed up and responded to the action tonight

He'd never heard of MoveOn. Come-on folks, push this number up. MoveOn now has 112 members who have supported the issue. Email all your friends and tell them about this.

If you haven't ever compiled your own "action" email list, you should do so now. A while back I put together the email addresses of my more progressive and moderate friends. Every so often I broadcast to them little progressive snippets, thoughts, and/or links. It's a good idea to put the list in the blind carbon copy field. In compuserve (and probably AOL) you do this by listing the email addresses in the CC field, but in parenthesis (). Microsoft Outlook as a separate BCC field.

If just two of your friends sign on to support the action at MoveOn, and those same two broadcast an email to THEIR friends, and that happened each day (i.e., two people on your two friends' email lists sign on and also rebroadcast the email, etc.), then in 10 days 1024 more people would have indicated their support for this issue on MoveOn.

So get to it!

[Kelvin Mace]

15. I'll see if I can get it mentioned at bbv,com

in the next poststing.

David Allen
www.plan9.org

Diebold Voting Machines
We vote for you, so you don't have to!

[juajen]

16. What would we do without moveon.org?

:kick:

[newsguyatl]

17. kick

i did it earlier eloriel... nice work!


:kick:

[RedEagle]

18. Time for Move On to MOVE!

Kick!