Ad in Ohio claiming how wonderful the new voting machines are gonna be.

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It's sponsored by the Ohio Board of Elections, no less. I honestly don't know what it's going to take other than going door to door and going LOOK! LOOK! But other than the free press doing investigative research and analysis (which tends to be more statistical and dry as toast-I mean I'm interested in the subject and my eyes glaze over fairly quickly reading the stuff) there's been NO real coverage and if there is, it's been the get-over-it-sore-loser opining.

The ballot initiative for election reform here in Ohio was a joke. People said it didn't pass because it was too wordy and complicated for people to understand. Now, why the people who wrote the language for the initiative didn't figure that out beforehand kind of makes one wonder if anyone really knows what they're doing or if they really wanted it to pass in the first place.

Media polls are saying Dems are leading but what happens if they lose despite all those exit polls saying the exact opposite? What then?

Can we even begin to take care of this by November?

Right now, I don't have much hope that we can.

Do we have to take this country back block by block? Is it possible given the current Us vs. Them mentality so prevalent in the media, blogs and bumper stickers?

This divide-and-conquer shit needs to stop. The powers that be have really succeeded in keeping the American public from seeing the bigger picture and how screwed we ALL are and will continue to be unless the true voice of the people is heard by their votes.

I'm wondering if I'd be tossed out of our neighborhood block watch meeting for bringing the voting machine issue up (we just moved here and don't know anyone, but the block watch group seems active and involved). I could say something like I know this seems political but this is a real problem and it is not a partisan issue. It's about the democratic process being flawed. If we have our votes stolen because there's no auditable paper trail or because the machines have major operating problems, then a crime has occurred and it is happening in THIS neighborhood precinct.


But, if these damn machines are shoved down our throats no matter what the outcry is, at the very least, by making the issue known with a more personal, one-one-one neighborhood level, people might be more willing to demand an investigation if and when things seem amiss the day after election day. If the same things happen again, like it did here in Ohio but on a much grander scale, maybe people will be less inclined to believe that this is all a conspiracy theory and we just need to get over it.

Would doing something like this be completely unrealistic? How does one go about starting a national movement that gets a small group of people in each precinct willing to get out there to simply inform. If these neighbors are responsive and agree that the machines are a problem, then ask them if they'd be willing to send a letter or sign a petition to compel their representative to demand paper trails/paper ballots/whatever will work. And make it easy for them by giving them a preprinted/prepaid post card.

Block by block.

Is it possible?