Welcome to the "HACKED!" Citizens' Action Center! We are working
to give you comprehensive descriptions on how to form an election
integrity group, how to get educated on election issues, and how to get
busy working with election officials at all levels toward the goal of
eliminating electronic voting machines and going back to hand-counted
paper ballot elections - with enhanced security procedures.
We'll be adding some more action steps as we can, but this will
give you a great start on how to get busy to take back elections, no
matter where you live! We will also be putting together a "Resource
Center" where links and attachments are documented.
Additionally, here are some quick action items
you can take to help stop what
is happening to elections in this country. More ideas can be found in
the book.
- Start an e-mail, calling and letter writing campaign amongst your
friends and e-mail lists. On a regular basis, barrage your elected
officials to change election laws banning elec- tronic voting equipment
and a return to safe hand-counted paper ballots.
- Bring video cameras to every election; ask to be at the counting
and tabulation areas at your precinct and county. Become an election
judge and take your video camera to trainings, elections and
certification hearings at the county and state level.
- Write letters to the editors of magazines, community newslet- ters,
nonprofit publications, newspapers, call in to radio shows, buy
billboard space on major roads across America, create a Web site to
educate people and advertise your Web site, pro- duce a documentary and
take any action you can think of to bring attention to this matter.
This is a NON-partisan problem. This issue affects everyone in America
on both sides of the aisle and in any party affiliation.
- Join the national Hand Count Registry - be on the national team to
be ready to hand-count ballots in November 2008. To sign up for the
Hand Count Registry, go to: http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/discus.cgi?pg=topics
- Use the Black Box Voting Tool Kit, a tutorial on a vast number of
actions you can take. This Tool Kit is a Declaration of Independence
for Citizens: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.pdf
- Demand that your county provide you with a paper ballot with which
to vote on election day; they keep these on hand for absentee and
mail-in ballots. Be sure to verify in writing that your ballot will not
be fed into a computerized optical scan counter as occurred recently in
Riverside County, California.
If you don't do anything else, consider donating money to the organizations working so
hard to reclaim elections for our citizens: www.blackboxvoting.org, bradblog.com, Voteraction.org, and Voterescue.org are some of the best! Your donation, large or small, would greatly contribute to their work.
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