OT: wanted, election night volunteer observers

[Dan Lund]

Yeah,  you definitely don't want to make anyone in the least bit
upset.  Voting outcome is not worth as much as a persons happiness :)

Thanks,
Dan Lund

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so
many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -
because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too
cowardly to exercise it.  The virtues which cloak these faults are
called patience and forbearance.
-Friedrich Nietzsche



On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jim,
>
> First of all, I applaud your efforts and support them. I also agree that
> there is a huge potential for voter fraud in this election.
>
> However, I am curious as to the legality of photographing the people who are
> handling the votes as well as the actual voting "cartridges". Who actually
> owns the cartridges when they leave the machines, and who runs the "central
> receiving" stations? Unless you have a signed release from all the people
> working at these facilities, I don't think you have the legal right to video
> tape them. However, I am not an attorney, so I am really speaking out of
> turn on this issue.
>
> What kind of reception will these volunteers receive when they show up with
> a video camera to record the process? Given the huge voter turnout expected,
> I would assume that there will be a lot of time pressure on the folks who
> are processing the cartridges, and additional bodies standing around taking
> pictures may not be a welcome distraction.
>
> Also, since none of your volunteers may not be familiar with the steps used
> in processing the cartridges, how will they know if something is amiss or
> not?
>
> Thanks again for your efforts. I am not trying to throw cold water on them
> by any means. I agree that we, as voters, have the moral right to
> observe/record the steps used to process our votes. However, I assume there
> are legal issues involved with going to a place of business and
> photographing/observing what goes on there. How will your volunteers get
> around these legal issues?
>
> Mark