Subject: RE: Video Your Vote
From: "Bauer, Bob (Perkins Coie)" <[email-masked]>
To: "Julius Genachowski" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], "Cassandra Butts " <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:45:53 -0400

Thanks!  I had heard of this, and there are pluses and minuses to it. It
can be reassuring--or alarming. 

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From: Julius Genachowski [mailto:[email-masked]]

Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 12:49 PM
To: Bauer, Bob (Perkins Coie)
Cc: [email-masked]; Christopher Lu ([email-masked]); Sonal
Shah ([email-masked]); Cassandra Butts

Subject: RE: Video Your Vote

Bob - see below: YouTube & PBS have announced a "Video Your Vote"
campaign where voters can put up videos of any issues/frustrations/etc
on election day.  (Came indirectly out of TIGR Group brainstorming...)

Might be something to incorporate into election day voter protection
efforts.

Julius
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From: Andrew McLaughlin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:32:31 -0700
Subject: Video Your Vote
To: Beth Noveck <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]"
<[email-masked]>, Julius Genachowski <[email-masked]>,
Sonal Shah <[email-masked]>, Alec Ross <[email-masked]>,
"Tom Kalil ([email-masked])" <[email-masked]>, Michele Jolin
<[email-masked]>, Noah Kindler <[email-masked]>, Reed
Hundt <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked] Leibovitz"
<[email-masked]>, "[email-masked] Levin" <[email-masked]>,
parry norling <[email-masked]>

If you'll forgive a moment of shameless self-satisfaction:  I've been
stewing all year about how messed up so many of our voting systems are,
and
about how the changes since 2000 have been mostly negative (perhaps
you've
seen the recent stories about how electronic voting machines in Florida
keep
producing different tallies from the same inputs).  I've also been
appalled
to see brazen registration-suppression efforts already launched by
GOPers in
Michigan, Ohio, Montana, and several Southern states.  In the course of
trying to pin down the truth about the Ohio 2004 vote fraud allegations,
I
kept running into the fact that claims about polling places are almost
always his-word vs. her-word situations.  And then came the TIGR-style
brainstorm.

So:  today YouTube and PBS announced "Video Your Vote" -- a campaign to
get
Americans to share their voting experiences (along with any problems
they
encounter -- long lines, aggressive challenges, unexpected procedural
hoops,
etc.) via video.  In addition to documenting a very exciting day in US
history, the hope is that citizens will capture violations of voting
rights
and upload them instantly for the world to see.  The website is here:

http://www.youtube.com/videoyourvote

It's in partnership also with the ACLU's Voting Rights Project,
BlackBoxVoting.org, Center for American Politics and Citizenship, Center
for
Governmental Studies, Center for the Study of the American Electorate,
Citizen Media Law Project, Common Cause, Flip Video Spotlight,
electionline.org, Howcast.com, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under
Law, Overseas Vote Foundation, People for the American Way, Pew Center
for
the States, Rock the Vote, Video The Vote, Voto Latino, Why Tuesday? and
Election Protection.

--andrew

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