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Time for Bloggers to Mobilize Regionally

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Tue May 10, 2005 at 09:10:20 PM EST
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With the Nuclear Option almost upon us, and only 18 months to go to the 2006 elections, bloggers need to mobilize regionally and locally. Bob Brigham writes over at Daily Kos and MyDD that BlogPAC is rushing out its regional infrastructure, and it's ready to go now.

This is a general call for Democratic bloggers to sign up and unite to wage politics online....As many of you know, over the last 10 months, BlogPAC has begun to organize nationally. Free conference calls, IM, Skype, and email have allowed us message consistency, organized timing, and focus. These tools have institutionalized a support system.

To be prepared for the filibuster battle and to begin our 18 month march through the election, we need to organize state-by-state, district-by-district...ASAP.

If you have a blog, go sign up. Email local bloggers you know and ask them to sign up at BlogPAC.... set up a free conference call, take advantage of email. Follow real-time politics in your state, pile on and help escalate. Work locally as a team.

The filibuster battle is coming, help us rush this into deployment. We need all hands on deck when they go nuclear and we need to be organized geographically.

Note: BlogpAC is a Political Action Committee for bloggers. TalkLeft is a member of its advisory board.

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    Time for Bloggers to Mobilize Regionally | 4 comments (4 topical)
    Re: Time for Bloggers to Mobilize Regionally (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:58:57 PM EST
    18 months heading into another STOLEN election, because there are still going to be 30 or so states with no recount rights, Diebold contracts, and vote-fraud SecStates in office. It won't get better until the system is un-fixed. If there is going to be national organization, it had better focus on the real problems. State-by-state, the election system has to be returned to it's previous relative accuracy. Down with Diebold -- they're cheats, and traitors to democracy.

    Re: Time for Bloggers to Mobilize Regionally (none / 0) (#2)
    by scarshapedstar on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:58:57 PM EST
    Uh-oh, Paul, your "wild accusations" will be held by rightwing commentors as proof of the vast left-wing schizophrenia. Never mind that they will conveniently be unable to even ackowledge the existence of the concerted right-wing political effort to torpedo any legislation that would give even the slightest oversight as to what Diebold's machines actually do.

    Re: Time for Bloggers to Mobilize Regionally (none / 0) (#3)
    by Lora on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:58:57 PM EST
    Do you know how your votes are counted? Better ask, better find out, better insist on paper and transparency. If not, all the mobilization and campaigning and phone calls are not going to amount to squat. We will lose. Start small, start grass-roots, start NOW. All citizens should be able to have a voting system that is easy to understand, as foolproof as possible, and, I firmly believe, with a voter-verified paper ballot that must match the machine count at the precinct level.

    Re: Time for Bloggers to Mobilize Regionally (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:58:58 PM EST
    "Posted by Lora: "Do you know how your votes are counted? Better ask, better find out, better insist on paper and transparency." Voter-verified paper ballots are USELESS to prevent Diebold vote fraud. The TABULATORS are where the whole story is told. Where they aggregate the votes, in their GEMS relational database (why should a voting db be relational?), is where they are stealing the election in the main. Blackboxvoting.com proved in March that they could add 100,000 votes to a 2004 Diebold tabulator, without ANY record of having done so, and that any teen with some cheapo equipment could do it. But beyond that, if your SecState works for Bush or agreed to paperless balloting, you may no longer HAVE recount rights, at which point even a paper ballot is useless, because it WILL NOT be recounted. We paid for the recount in Ohio, and they didn't let it happen. End of story? No, but it is the theme. As for 'oversight,' scar, we don't need no stinking oversight. We need Diebold (et al.)'s contracts CANCELLED, and the felonious SecStates removed from office. And we all need to work on that, NOW, or it won't happen.

    Time for Bloggers to Mobilize Regionally | 4 comments (4 topical)