Take a photo of your vote for President on non-paper trail, well, all machines!

The more people in an area that do this, the better the chance for Statisticians to calculate an error ratio and make "corrections" to the "corruptions.

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Folks, everyone who's hyping this "video the vote" thrust needs to understand that phones aren't permitted in some places. When I voted early in Albuquerque, a "no phones" sign was on the door. Although they weren't taken away from voters, phones had to be turned off, and the guy at the door said it was because so many phones have cameras.

When I reported this on Huffington Post, people in other areas said they'd run into the same restrictions.

Those who expect to take calls from voters in extremis -- such as the legal team at 866-OUR VOTE -- should take action on this issue NOW. Advice to place calls and refuse to leave polling places until problems are corrected will be worthless wherever phones can't be used on the premises. Ditto, all advice to take pictures and videos.

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Another person above mentioned that camphones werent being allowed in some polling places and I dont understand why not. Its not like you can see who someone is voting for. Unless theyre trying to keep anonymity among people waiting in line to vote?

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They even threw out the newspaper cameraman here last time. Kid got roughed up by our redneck cops, too. No way to do this in the Elephants' Graveyard here in SW Florida.

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I know in my bailiwick (Alabama), the state law precludes use of cameras and phones inside the polling place. You can photograph and make calls outside. So you might be able to interview exiting voters, witnesses, etc., but not actually capture events inside on video.

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I am a Judge at my local precinct in North Carolina. Cell phones are not allowed to be operational inside the polling place because of plain courtesy for fellow voters.
Voters have a maximum time of five minutes to vote. Voters should have decided who they are voting for by the time they are actually in the voting booth. Voters should not have to listen to personal phone calls. Taking pictures takes valuable time. If you are so unsure of your election officials, perhaps you should get involved. Election boards are always looking for workers. By the way, the notion that North Carolina may be the next "Florida" is total nonsense. Every possible type of voting is provided: special voting machines for the blind, curbside voting for the physically disabled, and voter choice help inside the voting booth. No one in North Carolina, who is eligible, is denied the right to vote. And, finally, votes are counted at time of voting by the machine into which the ballot is inserted. But then, nothing is "ignorant proof".

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I'm a JBC judge in Tennessee. Like some of the others above, phones are not allowed in the polling places and no campaign material including hats, shirts or buttons are allowed. So unless you see something outside this is a no go situation.

However, poll watchers are allowed in, but they have to register ahead of time. Here in Sullivan Co, where we have a huge Republican majority, the Republicans have poll watchers because of a little known law that says the minority party in the State legislature can have watchers. They're trying to unseat a very popular African-American State Representative and looking for any reason to contest the election. Too bad the Dems didn't bother to have someone in there watching the watchers!

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Chaney's bold endorsement of McCain right before the election should be a warning to all those who want a fair election. After McCain spent his entire campaign distancing himself from Bush and Chaney, Chaney told us the he, the power behind Bush, endorses McCain. So watch out. They aim to steal this election too and this was what Chaney was telling us.
Mark Crispin Miller is a media critic who's been focused on voter problems and election fraud in this country. He's a professor at New York University, author of several books. Most recently he edited Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008. His previous book, Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too.
Voter fraud-I want to repeat this-is virtually nonexistent. There have been several academic studies of this notion of whether individuals actually stuffed ballot boxes or show up at polling places pretending to be somebody else. There's actually not a single known case of any such type of voter fraud being prosecuted by the Department of Justice. And yet, that notion of voter fraud is used as the pretext for taking steps that do demonstrably result in tens of thousands of people being unable to vote, you see? It's a really masterful strategy. And I only wish that the Democratic Party had all this time been aggressive in pointing out that the Republicans are the party engaged in disenfranchisement.
Specifically, he has named a man named Mike Connell. Mike Connell, according to Spoonamore, is Karl Rove's computer guru. This is the guy who has helped Bush-Cheney fix election results through computers since Florida 2000, in Ohio in 2004, also in the stolen re-election of Governor Don Siegelman in Alabama in 2002, also in the stolen re-election of Senator Max Cleland in Georgia in 2002.
So don't mail in an absentee ballot and if you punch in Obama and it says McCain, go to the supervisor and demand that you want your vote corrected.

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I totally get the objection or at least the raising of the alarm that many places ban cellphones & cameras.

Listen up, people. You're fighting a fight by playing by owning-class rules of niceness and obedience and shit. STOP DOING THAT!

We're in a war, people. You bring your phone/cam and make sure it's on silent mode. You use it under your cuff, at your side, aiming up, whatever you have to do to document what's happening. If you're white, male or whatever, you USE your despicable race card, dammit! Go ahead and play the obnoxious offended white entitlement thing if you have to, as long as the voting malfeasance you've witnessed is documented somehow. The goal is the thing. Sometimes a verbal distraction allows you to get the shot they don't want you to have in the first place. Do it!

If you get tossed for it, your make such a stink no one can ignore it or wish it away.

You can't win a dirty fight by playing nice. You win it by ending the attack and most times to do that you have to work around the "rules." Period.

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I forgot... that and JDFU!

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primarily because of concerns that photos may show persons choices on the ballot. either you think people's voting choices should be private or you dont. i am for the ban just as i understand why cell phones are not allowed in locker rooms.

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