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Reflections of the First Citizens Parallel Election (CPE) in Texas
Karen Renick, Director, VoteRescue, Austin, TX
...Having attended weekly organizing and training meetings for a month preparing for the CPE, all of our volunteers were psyched and ready to greet the first voters of the day when the polls officially opened....By 8 a.m... one team had already been visited by the police and another had been berated by the irate principal of the school where they were stationed...
Blazing a Freedom Path
Vickie Karp, BBV Board Member National Chair, Coalition for Visible Ballots
...The sum total of our press (besides Radio Free Austin which promoted us at every opportunity) was Amy's article in the ACC paper, a short blurb in an Austin weekly newspaper and three radio interviews. A local news station sent a reporter out to one of our locations, but they didn't air the piece. The lack of coverage of this historical event is a sad and disturbing commentary on the state of our media. I can only take it as a compliment that they chose not to cover what we were doing. Someone must have thought it was too important, and didn't want other citizens to know about it...