November 2, 2008
YouTube instructions for ALL voters!
From Black Box Voting, Election Defense Alliance and Videothevote.org
Black Box Voting was asked by YouTube to prepare an easy to follow public education
program for Protecting the Count on ELECTION NIGHT and the days that follow.
We collaborated with Videothevote.org and Election Defense Alliance. YouTube
has created a Channel called Video Your Vote. The Black Box Voting Protect the
Count series contains important information and several video clips never before
made public.
Please distribute immediately and as widely as you can. EASY INSTRUCTIONS:
View the videos that best fit your location.
1. Protect the Count – most locations in America (4 min)
Takes 90 minutes on Election Night. You can even go out after polls have closed.
Please also view video # 3, because it shows what to look for to identify tampered
poll tapes and the kinds of small errors on tapes that can appear with memory
card tampering. Upload any video you take to http://www.videothevote.org – Post
link or comments for what you found in the state and jurisdiction at http://www.blackboxvoting.org
2. Protect the Count – Absentee / Central Count (8 min)
(Applies to 13 states with CENTRALLY COUNTED ballots and/or HEAVY ABSENTEE
VOTING)
These are the most challenging Protect the Count locations.
3. Protect the Count – New England / New Hampshire (5 min)
If you live anywhere in New England and can drive to any voting machine location
in New Hampshire to observe and video poll closing, please do so. If you live
anywhere in America that has polling place results tapes, please look at this
video to see what tampered tapes look like.
Contact Protect the Count – New Hampshire organizers at protectthevote@gmail.com
You can view the list for which New Hampshire locations use voting machines
here: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/157/157.html
4. Protect the Count – New York (9 min)
New Yorkers are probably in the best shape for Election 2008, but not for long.
This shows the details of how the counting of the lever machines proceeds after
polls close, and gives you the details of the fight New Yorkers will have on
your hands in 2009.
I’m counting on you to be as proactive as possible to fight for your voting
rights. The actions in the Protect the Count series are self-serve, simple to
do, and designed for just grabbing a neighbor or a buddy and taking action.
Don’t worry about blanketing every area or organizing the whole state. Just
pick a place and DO it. I guarantee it will be a fascinating and important experience,
and could provide THE crucial evidence in the very undesirable event that the
election turns out not to be fair.
Bev Harris
Founder – Black Box Voting
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
