The Creekside Declaration...

[BradBlog]

(Cross-posted from ER, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=499892&mesg_id=499892, since I believe it merits the eyeballs. Will you pledge support of these principles? And share them with your groups and candidates? - Brad)

"Mission: To encourage citizen ownership
of transparent, participatory democracy."

- Creekside Declaration, 3/22/08

The statement is deceptively simple. Yet I think it best underscores all that we fight for here, and what we hope those who claim to be toiling for the same cause will measure themselves against.

I was privileged to spend last weekend with a dozen or so Election Integrity advocates and heroes of mine in Palo Alto, CA, at the Creekside Inn. Those in attendance had experience in election administration, data analysis, media watchdogging, voting rights activism, voter advocacy, computer programming and security, boots-on-the-ground oversight, election auditing, and even voting system vendor perspective.

The declaration was created as several of us determined it would be helpful to define the cause as specifically and directly as possible. Once it was finalized, I signed it first, in large letters, as the Hancock legend goes, "so that King George can read it without his glasses."

My hope is that anyone --- any person or organization or even candidate for office, claiming to be in the fight for clean, fair, honest, accurate democracy --- would both commit to this simply stated mission, and then measure his or her efforts against it.

Will you and/or your group? Will you ask your candidate if they will do same?...



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[Misskittycat]

1. I'd like to use my 1,000th post to commit to this Declaration.

There is nothing more important than election integrity.

[BradBlog]

3. On behalf of the United States of America...

...I thank you for putting your 1000th post to such good use!

Anybody else willing to commit on record to the simple, but crucially vital values inherent in the Creekside Declaration?

[Ellipsis]

2. kick to the top/nt