Is your county elections needed on the Election Protection Watch List?

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From: Black Box Voting

HOW TO RECOMMEND AN AREA FOR THE WATCH LIST:

Provide specifics from 2007 or later, with credible links, news articles, or documents for any of the CRITERIA below. Send your recommendation for Watch List location by e-mail to: crew@blackboxvoting.org. Or you can post what you have online here:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/73/77633.html

We will add Watch List locations throughout the fall. The earlier you submit your recommendations, the better.

CRITERIA FOR BLACK BOX VOTING ELECTION PROTECTION WATCH LIST:

Counties and municipalities are assigned to the 2008 Black Box Voting election protection "Watch List" when we get reasonably recent specifics demonstrating any of the following:

- History of significant anomaly in election results
- History of ignoring election law
- History of election official lying to the public
- Impossible numbers or ballot/results reconciliations missing or significantly incorrect
- Significant obstruction of freedom of information requests
- History of corruption/indictments. Think it doesn't happen? Think again. Two of the Watch List election officials have been indicted for embezzlement in the past 90 days.

- This year, any place still using ES&S iVotronics. These voting machines are so demonstrably flawed and in most locations, so entirely vendor-dependent that any election using them should be repudiated as "void" by the public. Check your own state's Watch List if you want to know more.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A COUNTY OR MUNICIPALITY IS PUT ON THE WATCH LIST?

1. Customized citizen watchdog assignments for volunteers

2. See Web site - Watch List locations displayed on colored maps on home page: http://www.blackboxvoting.org for media and the public to see

3. Press releases to local media at Watch List locations

4. Increased Freedom of Information requests to Watch List locations

5. Stepped-up daily monitoring by Black Box Voting

6. Sharing of Watch List locations with other election integrity groups. public interest groups, and whatever political group cares to know

If you want to get our Watch List bulletins, and you haven't already done this, you can get the latest bulletins sent by joining the list here: http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-profile.cgi?action=register

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