Our vote. A proposal - questionairre.

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A proposal in question form. Looks long; reads fast. Start!

Do you feel TV network corporations compete to call (predict) elections?

If yes,

Are you aware that TV network corporations use exit poll results to call elections?

If yes,

Are you aware that exit polls have been considered an accurate way of forecasting the final results in a normal election?

If yes

Are you aware that exit polls have accurately forecast elections in many foreign countries?

If yes

Are you aware that TV network corporations have jointly owned the exit poll data as a result of jointly owning/contracting the exit poll company?

If yes

Are you aware that TV network corporations claimed that there were problems with their previous jointly-owned company (VNS) in the 2000 Florida election and they abandoned VNS just before the 2002 election and switched to a pool of networks that leaned on the Associated Press for data to analyze?

If yes

Are you aware that TV corporate networks made a decision to use Edison/Mitofsky in 2004 for exit polling data?

If yes

Are you aware that exit poll results coming in during election day (2004) were reported to have taken an unusual ‘turn’ during late evening and early morning hours? And are you aware that Edison-Mitofsky results have been challenged by academics and statistians all over our country? Are you aware that post-election investigations into their data are ongoing?

If yes

Would you be willing to go without TV network corporate domination through citizen control over the vote data results?

If yes

Would you be willing to wait 24 hours or even a little longer to know who won if it meant the integrity of the data could be more assured?

If yes

Would you be willing to vote with paper and a pencil if satisfied that concerned citizens could protect the results and that the results for your precinct, county, and state could be easily verified and that physical votes would be protected for a specified period of time and that election officials on all levels would be required to protect the results as well as cooperate in all circumstances of follow-through and follow-up?

If yes

Would you be willing to end the TV network corporate tradition of calling the vote using their own polling data and require that they only be allowed to call results as released by the states (or counties)?

If yes

Do you believe your vote is important enough to make this change and eliminate the electronic machines whose hardware, software, and technicians are privately owned and employed/contracted, thus ending the control of TV network corporations who may have (in the past) given themselves unilateral opportunities to adjust exit poll results?

If yes

Would you consider the appropriateness of this change and would you be willing to trust that ordinary citizens working with election officials could conduct a safe election?

If yes

Would you be willing to consider helping to monitor and count votes by hand and be willing to recount any vote that was contested if you were available to do it and would you make yourself available?

If yes

Would you be pleased to tell your children that every vote was counted in 2006 because the citizens were determined to count them and control them?

If you say yes – we can do it!

Start by telling your election officials who have already bought machines, thanks, but no thanks. Tell them that you must have paper and pencil voting and an honest monitoring of the process and the counts. Tell them that for obvious reasons, you must revert to old-fashioned methods. Tell them not to be embarassed about their decision to buy machines - that you just don't want to use them until a future date. Tell them that you can only trust paper and pencil until machines are voter approved.

Tell your local, county, and state officials that you do not want the results estimated by local, county, or state employees for the purposes of the tv network corporations until official.

Tell your local, county, and state officials that you will assist in the election with pride of duty and patriotic integrity because you need to protect your birth and naturalized right.