WE THE PEOPLE Foundation Asking For 60 Exit Pollers In IOWA

[ButchHowdy]

Sorry if this has been posted but these are the folks headed by Bob Schultz who have spent years exposing the IRS beast and actually won some significant court decisions in their pursuit for answers.

Even though Ron won yesterday, Boortz blocked him out, Hannity blacked him out, and Savage (who wasn't invited to the Bush palace) blocked him out as well.

They're asking for 60 volunteers:

http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/Update2007-08-05.htm

[PatriotOne]

Sorry if this has been posted but these are the folks headed by Bob Schultz who have spent years exposing the IRS beast and actually won some significant court decisions in their pursuit for answers.

Even though Ron won yesterday, Boortz blocked him out, Hannity blacked him out, and Savage (who wasn't invited to the Bush palace) blocked him out as well.

They're asking for 60 volunteers:

http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/Update2007-08-05.htm

This is interesting...............

Now picture this:

On Tuesday, August 7, 2007, a letter is delivered to the Iowa Republican Party and the State and County Boards of Elections. The letter is signed by various good-government and election reform organizations and holders of $35 tickets that entitle them to vote in the Ames Straw Poll. The letter says that unless the following 10-point program is agreed to, a court order will be sought to enjoin and prohibit the Ames Straw Poll until the reforms are agreed to:

1. From the time the voter votes to the time the results of the vote are publicly announced, all paper ballots are never out of the view of the public.

2. Instead of being deposited into a black box, each completed paper ballot is deposited into a numbered, clear-plastic, container that is in clear public view all day. The number on the container matches a number on the machine. The numbers are 4 inches high, black on white.

3. Each candidate on the ballot has the Right to have an observer present for an inspection by the County of each container. The single inspection is scheduled to take place 9:55 am at each of the 60 vote stations.

4. Surrounding each vote station at a distance of 30 feet from the numbered clear plastic container is a rope beyond which any person can quietly stand to quietly observe the clear-plastic containers and the number of voters.

5. As the voting period ends, each ballot box is set on one of two 72” cafeteria-style tables that have been set up at each of the 60 voting stations. There, the ballots are separated and hand counted.

6. Besides two members of the staff of the County or State Board of Elections, each candidate has a Right to have a representative participate in the counting process. All county and candidate Counters must agree on the candidate allocation of each vote. Once all Counters are in agreement on the allocation of all votes, the result of the count is read aloud for public consumption.

7. The paper ballots are then returned to the numbered, clear-plastic containers, which are then transported to a central location, -- never out of view of the county and candidate observers or the general public.

8. At the central location, the containers are placed inside an area that has been roped off. Within the roped off area, chairs have been set up for the county and candidate counters.

9. As each numbered container arrives at the central location, the results of the hand-counted vote is read aloud by one of the County observers and entered into a computer for projection onto a screen in the room and for posting on the County and State websites.

10. After the results of the vote from each of the 60 vote stations is read aloud, the cumulative totals from the hand-counts are agreed to by the county and candidate Counters, read aloud and entered into the computer for projection onto the screen in the room and for posting on the County and State websites. This process is continued until the results of the vote at all 60 vote stations have been read aloud and added to the prior total.

NOTE: The Ames Straw Poll is the very first contest that has any meaning in the run up to the Presidential election. The People need to do everything possible to insist that elections are fair and votes are counted properly. Besides the possibility of a court order on the side of a fair vote count there is a serious effort underway by Citizens For a Fair Vote Count and the “Vote In Sunshine Project” to conduct a “Citizens’ Exit Poll” that would include a signed, notarized affidavit by the voter stating who he/she voted for. For more information about the Citizens’ Exit Poll go to www.votefraud.org.

The Iowa Republican Party can be expected to resist this “open and honest vote count” process at the Straw Poll. Therefore, Citizens For a Fair Vote Count urgently needs 200 volunteers to help conduct the double-check on the easily rigged Diebold machines at Ames this Saturday (August 11, 2007), and they need some funds for the printing of “exit poll” pamphlets, signs and paper ballots and the tents. There will also be filing fees and other costs associated with any legal action. Please volunteer and/or contribute to help us accomplish this vital step for honest elections everywhere. A breakthrough is needed now.

[Avalon]

While this is a solid plan, I seriously doubt they'll be able to get a court order.

[ChicagoLawyer]

I see no way this case can succeed. The Iowa GOP is a private organization and can conduct a "straw poll" however it likes. The only claim would be the contract one enters into in paying $35 to vote. Money is better spent at ronpaul2008.com

[Avalon]

I see no way this case can succeed. The Iowa GOP is a private organization and can conduct a "straw poll" however it likes. The only claim would be the contract one enters into in paying $35 to vote. Money is better spent at ronpaul2008.com

Exactly...unless

A) they can get the GOP on board (hah) or
B) there are laws in Iowa that regulate this straw poll

they really need to set something up in parallel, like what I suggested...but it's probably too late to get a booth/tent on the grounds so you'll have to do it in the "Protester's area" somewhere across the street (likely out of sight). And to have credible results you'll need convince at least half the voters to come down and vote again (and you probably can't win them with food etc. because they're already getting that from the candidates). Not to mention that volunteers trying to bring people from the straw poll could be told to stay off the property (how close is public property? Will people walk by that area?)

I really don't see an option here at this point that will do anything but perhaps convince some of us RP fans that it was rigged. We needed to organize this two months ago.