{"id":9369,"date":"2012-11-05T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9369"},"modified":"2012-11-05T09:14:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T17:14:48","slug":"record-voting-irregularities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/record-voting-irregularities\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Voting Irregularities!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One prediction about tomorrow is certain.  Republicans will do everything humanly possible to steal this election.  There are going to be countless irregularities.  To provide cover for this, Republicans will be staging false flag irregularities.  The best way is to defend yourselves and others is to go armed to the polls.  No, I\u2019m not talking about taking guns.  Using violence as a threat is InsaniTEA.  Our weapons of choice must be cameras.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"5video\"Judging from recent experience, close presidential elections tend to coincide with problems at the polls. Remember the 2000 election’s butterfly ballots and dangling chads? Or, four years later, the 10-hour lines<\/a> in Knox County, Ohio? Though civil rights groups worry that history will again repeat itself this year, at least one thing will be different: what’s in our pockets. Anybody with a smartphone can now shoot video of polling irregularities and upload it to the internet<\/strong>. But someone must still curate all of this citizen journalism, and that’s where a group called Video The Vote<\/a> comes in.<\/p>\n

A member of a network of voting rights groups known as the Election Protection Coalition<\/a>, Video the Vote wants anybody who notices voting problems to document the situation and bring the footage to its attention<\/strong>. "In an era of partisan voter purges, onerous ID requirements, and organized intimidation, it’s not enough for citizens to just cast their ballots," says Matt Pascarella, Video The Vote’s campaign director. In addition to collecting citizen uploads, he’ll field a national network of his own videographers to target swing-state hotspots.<\/p>\n

You might end up seeing some of these videos on the Mother Jones website; I’ll be embedded with Video The Vote office during much of Election Day. In addition, Mother Jones is encouraging readers to report any poll problems, voter intimidation, and vote-suppression attempts you might encounter via our own interactive map and "Guide to Voter Suppression and Poll Problems<\/a>."… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here\u2019s a Video the Vote<\/a> video.<\/font><\/p>\n