Seems to me the biggest worry for 2020 is ELECTION FRAUD...not ideas put forth by Dems, or

[diva77]

3rd party candidates. The Dems have great ideas and certainly outnumber rethugs.

Make your elections officials accountable - write letters to newspapers demanding transparent elections with hand marked paper ballots; meet with your county elections officials, write to your secretary of state to condemn certification of computerized voting equipment. Get your local political party meetups to write letters. Contact the ACLU if you have nonverifiable voting machines and no paper ballots. Problem is, this kind of activism is difficult and elections officials are under the severe influence of vendors and the powers behind the vendors resulting in poor treatment of those who try to speak out.

Additionally, we need to fight gerrymandering, precinct consolidation, malfunctioning machines, malfunctioning polling places (no electricity), under-deploying machines, dropping people from voter rolls, etc. etc.

some organizations working in the trenches to fight election fraud:

https://www.coalitionforgoodgovernance.org/
https://www.fairfightgeorgia.com/

(both are working in Georgia currently)

[clementine613]

1. Of course there is going to be election fraud...

... a Rethug is running.

[diva77]

2. Agreed. Dems need to get more worked up about election fraud.

[clementine613]

3. Cheating is in their nature.

I don't think they're even capable of running a clean campaign.

[Gothmog]

4. I have worked on voter protection efforts every election since 2004

I went to Florida as part of the Kerry Edwards voter protection team.

One thing that makes me happy is that Marc Elias is working for Senator Harris

Link to tweet

[diva77]

6. Wow, impressive work Elias is doing - thanks for posting. What kind of work is

he doing for Sen. Harris?

[Gothmog]

8. Marc was Hillary Clinton's election law attorney

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Hillary had a well organized legal team called Victory Counsel. Marc will head up Senator Warren’s efforts

[diva77]

12. I wonder what Elias and Bonifaz think of each other

[Gothmog]

5. I am also a member of We the Action

Link to tweet

[diva77]

7. sounds like an effective organization -- were you working on a letamericavote.org project?

[Gothmog]

9. I ran the voter protection war room in my county working with state party

[diva77]

11. what kinds of things go on in a voter protection war room?

[Gothmog]

13. Mainly calls from voters

The state party had a statewide hotline and a war room in Austin that forwarded complaints to me. All of the attorneys were hooked into the DNC LBJ database where all issues were logged in and referred out. There was a spreadsheet generated by the LBJ database that showed that I handled 40+ issues.

Each of the county candidates had my cell number and had voters call me. The two large campaigns had whataps groups that forward calls to me. I had a dozen poll watchers out at key voting centers. When I had time I helped the campaign for a congressional candidate answer questions in mass texts. I had to move poll watchers around at times when polling locations were having problems. I also coordinated with another large war room in the next county. I got a couple of calls from voters in the neighboring county due to the fact that congressional district for CD 22 is in three counties.

The goal is to save ballots. It was a long day on Election Day I also handled a couple dozen calls during early voting.

[diva77]

14. kudos to you for this kind of election protection work; now if we could move to having paper

ballots hand marked AND hand counted at the precinct level with public oversight, that would save even more ballots!!

HCPB is the ultimate resort when trying to resolve election result challenges anyway.

[triron]

10. If close the Russians will make a puke POTUS again.

Election engineering I call it. They did it in 2016, they're better now.