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Author Message   Bev Harris Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 10008 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box?  Votes: 1 (A keeper?) Posted on Sunday, November 2, 2008 - 3:14 pm:        Black Box Voting was asked by YouTube to prepare an easy to follow public education program for Protecting the Count on ELECTION NIGHT and the days that follow. We also collaborated with Videothevote.org and Election Defense Alliance. YouTube has created a Channel called Video Your Vote. The Black Box Voting Protect the Count series contains important information and several video clips never before made public. Please distribute immediately and as widely as you can. EASY INSTRUCTIONS: View the videos that best fit your location, find a buddy, pick an action, do it! 1. Protect the Count - most locations in America(4 min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3_xFb1sWKU Takes 90 minutes on Election Night. You can even go out after polls have closed. Please also view video # 3, because it shows what to look for to identify tampered poll tapes and the kinds of small errors on tapes that can appear with memory card tampering. Upload any video you take to http://www.videothevote.org - Post link or comments for what you found in the state and jurisdiction at http://www.blackboxvoting.org 2. Protect the Count - Absentee / Central Count (8 min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZp3rA1XXjw (Applies to 13 states with CENTRALLY COUNTED ballots and/or HEAVY ABSENTEE VOTING) These are the most challenging Protect the Count locations. 3. Protect the Count - New England / New Hampshire(5 min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV4M12w6tY4 If you live anywhere in New England and can drive to any voting machine location in New Hampshire to observe and video poll closing, please do so. If you live anywhere in America that has polling place results tapes, please look at this video to see what tampered tapes look like. Contact Protect the Count - New Hampshire organizers at protectthevote@gmail.com You can view the list for which New Hampshire locations use voting machines here: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/157/157.html 4. Protect the Count - New York (9 min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmSn4qLdgbU New Yorkers are probably in the best shape for Election 2008, but not for long. This shows the details of how the counting of the lever machines proceeds after polls close, and gives you the details of the fight New Yorkers will have on your hands in 2009. We're counting on you to be as proactive as possible to fight for your voting rights. The actions in the Protect the Count series are self-serve, simple to do, and designed for just grabbing a neighbor or a buddy and taking action. Don't worry about blanketing every area or organizing the whole state. Don't worry about redundant efforts -- the more the merrier! Just pick a place and DO it. I guarantee it will be a fascinating and important experience, and could provide THE crucial evidence in the very undesirable event that the election turns out not to be fair. Bev Harris Founder - Black Box Voting http://www.blackboxvoting.org * * * * *   Martha Bingham Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: Marieb Post Number: 3 Registered: 3-2008 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Sunday, November 2, 2008 - 9:52 pm:        How does Florida handle the poll tapes? I can not find this information in the Florida Election Law. This is one of the most important elections in Florida history, and we should not get it wrong for the third time. Your help would be appreciated. Thanks.   Bev Harris Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 10011 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Sunday, November 2, 2008 - 10:22 pm:        In Florida, it is legal to enter the polling place AFTER polls close, and it is legal to video the tape. It is supposedly posted, but the quality control in Florida is pretty dreadful, even when something is clearly required.   Andrea johnston Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: Andrea35 Post Number: 1 Registered: 11-2008 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Saturday, November 8, 2008 - 1:49 pm:        Is anyone questioning the Senate race in NV ? I am. How could we vote so heavy for President Obama and so light for Derby. It makes no sense.   Bev Harris Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 10165 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Saturday, November 8, 2008 - 1:52 pm:        Hi Andrea, and welcome to Black Box Voting. We need more than just an election result to question results. What specific anomalies can you point us to, beside "it makes no sense"?

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The public must be able to see and authenticate these four essential steps for an election to be public, democratic, and valid: (1) Who can vote (voter list); (2) Who did vote (3) The original count; (4) Chain of custody.