Fwd: voting (fwd)

Joy,
Was this electronic voting?


HEADS UP FOR CALIFORNIANS!

You have the right to ask for a paper ballot AND REFUSE THE ELECTRONIC
BOOTH.
Problem? To encourage the use of electronic poll workers have been
encourage NOT TO TELL VOTER THEY HAVE A CHOICE.
http://www.paperorplastic2004.org/

Blog it!
Spread the word.

Oh! And are you a VOTERGASM PATRIOT?
I am …
http://www.culturekitchen.com/archives/002479.html

Join the voting orgy
www.votergasm.com

/ l i z a

ps : have not ignored the thread I started … just been busy tech'ing
and blogging the elections.
Check it out at www.culturekitchen.com


On Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004, at 20:47 America/New_York, Joy Garnett wrote:

>
> this is , uh, rather creeepy:
>
>
> ———- Forwarded message ———-
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:58:15 -0400
>
>
>> Here's an important heads up …
>
>> Yesterday a friend voted early at a polling location in Austin. She
>> voted
>> straight Democratic. When she did the final check, lo and behold every
>> vote
>> was for the Democratic candidates except that it showed she had voted
>> for
>> Bush/Cheney for president/vice pres.
>>
>> She immediately got a poll official. On her vote, it was corrected.
>> She called the Travis County Democratic headquarters. They took all
>> her
>> information, and told her that she wasn't the first to report a
>> similar
>> incident and that they are looking into it.
>>
>> So check before you leave the polling booth, and if anything is wrong,
>> get
>> it corrected immediately. Report any irregularities to your local
>> Democratic
>> headquarters.
>>
>> Make sure you pass this along to your friends … hopefully this is
>> all over
>> the airwaves by tomorrow …
>>
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liza, I'm not sure–it's sort of hearsay but I've come to trust the
source, who's not the type to send out every spam she receives…



On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, liza sabater wrote:

> Joy,
> Was this electronic voting?
>
>
> HEADS UP FOR CALIFORNIANS!
>
> You have the right to ask for a paper ballot AND REFUSE THE ELECTRONIC BOOTH.
> Problem? To encourage the use of electronic poll workers have been encourage
> NOT TO TELL VOTER THEY HAVE A CHOICE.
> http://www.paperorplastic2004.org/
>
> Blog it!
> Spread the word.
>
> Oh! And are you a VOTERGASM PATRIOT?
> I am …
> http://www.culturekitchen.com/archives/002479.html
>
> Join the voting orgy
> www.votergasm.com
>
> / l i z a
>
> ps : have not ignored the thread I started … just been busy tech'ing and
> blogging the elections.
> Check it out at www.culturekitchen.com
>
>
> On Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004, at 20:47 America/New_York, Joy Garnett wrote:
>
>>
>> this is , uh, rather creeepy:
>>
>>
>> ———- Forwarded message ———-
>> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:58:15 -0400
>>
>>
>>> Here's an important heads up …
>>
>>> Yesterday a friend voted early at a polling location in Austin. She
>>> voted
>>> straight Democratic. When she did the final check, lo and behold every
>>> vote
>>> was for the Democratic candidates except that it showed she had voted
>>> for
>>> Bush/Cheney for president/vice pres.
>>>
>>> She immediately got a poll official. On her vote, it was corrected.
>>> She called the Travis County Democratic headquarters. They took all her
>>> information, and told her that she wasn't the first to report a similar
>>> incident and that they are looking into it.
>>>
>>> So check before you leave the polling booth, and if anything is wrong,
>>> get
>>> it corrected immediately. Report any irregularities to your local
>>> Democratic
>>> headquarters.
>>>
>>> Make sure you pass this along to your friends … hopefully this is
>>> all over
>>> the airwaves by tomorrow …
>>>
>> +
>> -> post: [email protected]
>> -> questions: [email protected]
>> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
>> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
>> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members
>> +
>> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
>> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>>
>
> +
> -> post: [email protected]
> -> questions: [email protected]
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
>

Californian paper vote info:

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/25/make_sure_california.html
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_10.php#002010

- Rob.

On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, at 03:04PM, Joy Garnett <[email protected]> wrote:

>liza, I'm not sure–it's sort of hearsay but I've come to trust the
>source, who's not the type to send out every spam she receives…