VoteRescue and Texans for Real Elections Coalition Had a Great Day at the Polls
November 8, 2007
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First of all, many thanks to our wonderful volunteers: Hector DelToro, Laura Killins, Linda Curtis, Terry Melton, Whitney Young, Kathy Cox, Mike Kirk, Brian Worsham, Russell Doyle, Scott Prevratil, and Jim Moran. You all did SUCH a fantastic job, and we are so grateful for such an enthusastic group of freedom-loving patriots who spent most and/or all of Election Day working on this exciting monitoring event! (We were happy to be working at Govalle Elementary where our VoteRescuer, Lee LeTeff, was working inside as an Election Judge!) And Abbe Waldman DeLozier joined us later and helped "MAKE IT HAPPEN" with our press conference, as I will detail further down!
For those of you who worked the Exit Poll at Govalle Elementary, (Hector, Laura, Terry, Linda C, Scott--and ME) we especially appreciate your patience because the low turnout there made for a longer day. We know you all got better acquainted, though! :) Even still, y'all secured an awesome 25% respondent rate (though only 20 Exit Poll respondents all day, there were only 79 total voters at that location!)
For those of you who worked at Casis, (Kathy, Karen, Brian, Mary, Mike, Whitney, Jim, and Russell) thanks for your fast-paced efforts and diligence; having a large crowd of voters to work with certainly makes things hop, and you succeeded in securing a fantastic respondent rate of 40% at your location with 164 respondents out of a total of 407 voters (that is an estimated official number of voters but probably accurat
e within 2-3).Our Exit Polling did not show any real anomalies between our results and the official results for the three Propositions we used for our questionnaire; I think that based on our high respondent rate alone we can feel fairly confident that, at least in these precincts, the official results were likely reported accurately in terms of actual passage (or not) of these three Propositions.
WONDERFUL JOB, EVERYONE! We are going to be SO ready to hit the polls for the Primaries! We look forward to sharing experiences together at our next regular meeting, which will be TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 (the week of Thanksgiving, but hopefully most of you will still be in town!). Many of you were discussing yesterday ways to add to our volunteer ranks and came up with some creative ideas, which we look forward to delving into further at the next meeting. We may combine discussion with a new election DVD just out, titled "Uncounted" ....STAY TUNED! Venue TBA, but we hope for Brave New Books!
LAST BUT NOT LEAST: To top off a very exciting day, "Lady Liberty", on leave from New York City, made a fantastic and historic appearance last night at the Travis County Election office! We also want to thank all of YOU who came out, held lights and "Dear Dana" postcards (an impressive 63 feet of them!) while "Lady Liberty" (whose real initials are "KR") stood on a stool for added height, waved her torch in one hand and clasped a copy of "HACKED!" in the other, and gave forth demands that our County Clerk, Dana DeBeauvoir, eliminate electronic voting once and for all and give the voters what they demand: a return to safe, hand-counted paper ballot elections!
Perhaps the highlight was when Dana herself came outside to watch, heard most of Lady Liberty's speech, and was so (in shock?) (caught off guard?) (flabbergasted?) by our "guerr illa theatre," that when asked by Ms. Liberty if she had any comment, she simply said, "NO!" (though she did add, "Thanks for coming, you're welcome to be here" or some similiar comment.)
Thanks to press releases sent out, phone calls made, and especially coaxing by Mary Krenek and expert on-site media maneuvering by Abbe Waldman DeLozier, KXAN-TV news showed up and recorded Lady Liberty's excellent speech AND gave it airplay on the 10 pm news! We were a very happy group of VoteRescuers indeed as we watched the clip on TV from the bar of the Crowne Plaza Hotel. All-in-all, a fantastic night to remember in VoteRescue and Coalition history!
SPECIAL THANKS to TERRY MELTON who not only provided lighting for Ms. Liberty, allowing the news crew to get good footage, BUT, got great footage himself and JUST POSTED IN ON YOUTUBE! (Link to follow!)
SPECIAL THANKS TO ABBE WALDMAN DELOZIER, who told me today that the KXAN reporter who was on the scene last nigh
t was not planning to tape us....he was just sent to tape footage of the activities inside the "counting" room. Contrary to what we'd thought, the KXAN news producer had NOT sent him out to tape US! Abbe actually talked us up to him and did such a great sales job that he couldn't resist, came out front, and got the story! YAY, ABBE!
Saving elections sure can be FUN!
You are all valuable friends and members of our team, and WE APPRECIATE YOU!!
With gratitude,
Vickie (and Karen!)
See video of Lady Liberty at Press Conference after Exit Polling All Day