One System We Could Find For Elections Error Reporting

One of my readers found this for me.
I still have to investigate further, but I didn’t want to waste any time passing the info on to you.
At least one such system exists: EIRS from the Verified Voting Foundation. I have no idea how many, if any, poll workers know about it.
866-OUR-VOTE
https://voteprotect.org/
The Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS) is an integrated set of computer tools for recording and analyzing information about voting problems before, during, and after elections. Since 2004, hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals in the United States have used EIRS to help protect our right to vote and assure that every vote is counted as cast.
EIRS is a project of the Verified Voting Foundation, in cooperation with other Election Protection Coalition member organizations, including the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and People for the American Way Foundation.
The Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS) is an integrated set of tools to assist Election Protection Organizations and their members in carrying out a number of activities, including:
* Collect background and testing information from state & local election officials * Compile and track election irregularity data before, during, and after election day * Organize and manage teams of people and tasks * Dispatch attorneys and technologists rapidly to resolve election day incidents at voting places * Provide an on-line collaborative environment for rapid communication among advocates, attorneys, technologists, election officials, media professionals, and others * Support subsequent research for election policy-making

Electronic Voting Machines Already Malfunctioning In This Year’s Election – No System Or Centralized Process In Place For Tracking Problems

It seems so obvious, but I hadn’t really thought about it until now.
In the Daily Kos:

From the Miami Herald:

Glitches cited in early voting
Early voters are urged to cast their ballots with care following scattered reports of problems with heavily used machines.
The problem is just the “glitches” themselves, but this:

n Broward County, for example, they don’t know how widespread the machine problems are because there’s no process for poll workers to quickly report minor issues and no central database of machine problems.

Do we need to create a central database for such issues…nationwide by state?
Can we do it by Tuesday?
If such a system already exists…do all the pollworks know? Can we organize some kind of reporting process where poll workers can call in errors to those online?
Or set up wireless stations at the polls themselves? (probably not easy since most won’t have dsl around)
So back to the phoning into internet stations idea…

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Plan B November 8th – Let’s Plan Some Locations

Ok so, so far, the overwhelming reaction to my Plan B idea has been:
“OK! I’m ready to protest Wednesday. But….tell me where to go. I don’t get the whole ‘in the streets’ thing.”
Good idea to have a starting point at least. (We might just flash mob from there.)
Seems like people should pick a key location in their home city and decide on the best time, and take it from there.
For myself here in the SF Bay Area, we should probably end up at Civic Center – so there’s someplace to congregate (since we’ll be expecting tens of thousands of people).
So think about it. Where’s the best location in your town?
Remember to share
this link to the Plan B stuff and spread the word!

Links to the HTML Versions of My Copyright and Creative Commons Guide

http://video.lisarein.com/sfsu/..I wanted to get this up quick so it would be easy to tell people at the ACM conference.
Looks like I never told you that I HTML’d my Copyright/Creative Commons Paper and Guide.
It’s all indexed and such so it should be easier to get around in.
Don’t forget the handy pro/con table for Creative Commons Licenses
thanks!
lisa

Plan B – Getting Ready for this Year’s Stolen Election

They wouldn’t dare do it again. But what if they do? We need a Plan B.
I’ve been thinking about this for a long time, and trying to choose just the right words to delicately suggest that, despite all of the obvious developments over the last few months, whereby the public has made it perfectly clear that it is ready for a change in this country’s leadership, that the Republican’s might actually cheat again.
Yes, despite the obviousness of what they’d be doing, and even with the added risk of pulling it off this year while everyone’s really paying close attention. The stakes are just too high to just hand their power back over.
And really, why wouldn’t they just do it again, when the previous election takeovers were met with such minimal resistance?
Maybe we can be ready for action this year, instead of dumbfounded and scratching our heads, like it seems like we end up every two years, for going on six years now.
So… What if the Republicans did it again this year? What if they stole the election again, right in front of us.
Despite all of the evidence that it can’t happen – it happens! What then?
If they steal another election, with everybody watching, can we all agree to do something about right away, the day after?
Could we be in the streets the next morning?
Where? We’ll figure that out later. We can just flood the streets, and let the flash mobs figure it out. Right?
Well. As of this evening, I’m really, seriously, asking you about this.
Why now more than ever? Because tonight, Keith Olberman did a piece contrasting the overwhelming numbers across the board in favor of the Democrats taking over with a recording of Karl Rove on NPR explaining how, by his calculations, the Republicans should retain the House and Senate, like always, saying “You may end up with a different math but you’re entitled to your math. I’m entitled to The Math.”
And I realized it’s not a question of “what are we gonna do if.”
It’s really a question of “what are we going to do when.”
We’re not really going to stand for this again. Are we?
Can we become mentally prepared enough over the next 13 days to be ready to take some kind of real action?
Talk to me people.

Dabble In Insidebayarea.com

Site helps fans play with videos.
By Janis Mara

A GUINEA PIG SPROUTS Romaine lettuce wings and soars aloft to a song by TMarie, a housewife shares her recipes for perfect chocolate chip cookies, and PresidentBush “sings” U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday” in the top 10 video playlists on Berkeley-based video Web site Dabble.com.
The site, launched just two months ago by Mary Hodder of Berkeley, makes it possible to search through 2.6 million high-resolution video films online, then tag and organize them

Dabble T-shirt’s for All My Friends

Hey I forgot to let you know that I’ll send you a free “dabbler” t-shirt if you try to remember to send me a picture of you wearing it for the Dabble Blog.
Just email me at lisa@dabble.com
Dabbler videos are also encouraged! We feature a
Video of the Day every day.
These usually get seen by a lot of people and get to bounce around in our popularity algorithms for a while.
The next one could be yours!

A Trip Down Memory Lane – Back to 2003 and the Jessica Lynch Rescue Hoax/Patrick Miller Heroics Cover-up

Here’s one of my favorite memories of 2003 – The Jessica Lynch Rescue Hoax
First we heard about Jessica Lynch as a private who was attacked and fought down to here last bullet – even whipped out her knife, because she would not be taken alive!
Then we see the staged rescue where she was supposedly being held captive at the hospital.


Jessica Lynch
The other four people Miller saved

Turns out:
1) She was in a convoy accident/She was never in combat
2) She was being treated very nicely in the Iraqi hospital. There was no need to rescue her.
3) There actually was a hero that day – Patrick Miller – whose story the government decided to cover-up because it made their made up heroics for Jessica look bad.
4) He’s such a devoted soldier, he doesn’t want to make a big deal about it.
This has all been confirmed by both the BBC and 60 Minutes.
Here’s a playlist of these clips so you can see them all easily, whenever it’s convenient for you.
If those files are too large for you for some reason, I have them broken down into two and/or three parts here.
Patrick Miller