Cuyahoga's Vote-Count-Protection roles
1. "Project Post" (Capture election results at a Polling Place (see ProtectTheCount video from Black Box Voting for example) WE STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS TO "ADOPT" a POLLING PLACE!
The municipalities totally untouched are: Strongsville, Middleburg Heights, North Royalton, Broadview Heights and Seven Hills. There are pieces of North Olmstead, Lakewood, Warrensville Hts, Lyndhurst, Richmond Hts and Highland Heights, and most Cleveland Wards. So, feel free to capture results from these areas. It would be great if you could claim at least 4 polling places. I'll update this list before 7pm.
As of 4:20, I am crashing for a couple of hours. I will respond to any email messages in a little while.
NOTE: You can call in/email in your numbers tomorrow, as I will probably be out grabbing numbers myself tonight.
THANKS SO MUCH!!! Vicki (lovegrenv@gmail.com) For the time being, please refer to the page from the Cuyahoga Board of Elections where you can select a municipality and see a map showing the polling places. The page where you can select the maps is: http://www.boe.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/Maps.aspx (Go about half the way down the page, where it says "Polling Place", and "select a city." Another useful page is http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/reports-historical-information.aspx. One of these pages shows other useful information such as which precincts are in which polling place, voter turnout, etc. Good stuff!
For now, please read the instructions below, and print out copies of the Tally Sheet.
Please use my personal email address at this point. It's quicker. lovegrenv@gmail.com Thanks so much, Victoria Lovegren, Ph.D. Board Member of Common Cause-Ohio; host of "Doing Democracy" on WRUW FM 91.1.
Summary of the project
For each Optical Scan device at a polling place, three copies of a "cash-register-tape-looking" report will be printed at the end of the election day. (In the "ProtectTheCount" video from Black Box Voting, this report is called a "poll tape". In Cuyahoga County, the report is called the Voting Results Report) One of these three reports (tapes) will be posted on a window or door, or some place accessible by the public, after poll workers have "closed out" their precincts. (The other two copies will be taken to the Board of Elections.) Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, issued Directive 2008-87, which requires counties which count ballots at the precinct, to post a copy of the precinct-specific election results.
Note: I just learned today that the "lightness" of the print on the sample I received several weeks ago, is, indeed what we can expect tomorrow. Just warning you not to be shocked!
I also learned that the "tapes" will be up for 24 hours before the board requests the facility take them down. They did admit, however, that they have no control over what certain individuals might do. I think there should be attorneys present at each polling location, working for at least one of the campaigns, so don't let anyone tell you you have no right to view these "poll tapes". Refer any discouraging indivual to Secretary of State's Directive 2008-87.
Our volunteers will locate these posted poll tapes. These tapes will contain the election results from one precinct(s). Here's a Sample Voting Results Report.
Your job is to:
a) transcribe information from the Voting Results Report onto a Tally Sheet
b) (if possible) take a photograph of the tape from which you have taken the information (Note: BlackBoxVoting.org talks about "video taping" the poll tapes. For our project, we prefer digital-camera photgraphs, but will be happy to receive any back up copy.)
c) call-in or email the information you have "captured" (see numbers and email addresses on the Tally Sheet)
d) email or mail the photograph(s) which "backup" the data you have called/emailed in.
For more information, see the Project Post Instruction Sheet. Thats it!
Polling-place assignments will be made on a first-come-first-serve basis, so volunteer early, indicating your preferred polling place(s).
Note: If you have not pre-arranged to be a Project Post volunteer, yet are able to obtain posted election results that you are willing to share with us (PLEASE!!!), please do so (See Project Post Instruction Sheet and Tally Sheet for more info. Actually, using the Tally Sheet, it is pretty easy to figure out what to capture from the posted results.) 2. "Conduct Citizen Exit Polls " (also known as Election-Verification Exit Polls)
For more information about our election-verification exit polls, visit http://www.electionintegrity.org/EVEP/EVEP.aspx or www.electiondefensealliance.org/evp . Pollsters will:
a) greet voters as they exit the polling place, and ask them if they would mind taking 30 seconds to participate in our Citizen Exit Poll (for election-verification purposes) and fill out a very short, and anonymous questionnaire;
b) if they agree, give them a clipboard with the questionnaire and have them drop the completed questionnaire in the clearly labelled "EXIT POLL" box. The questionnaire for precincts in the 10th congressional district, for example, will look something like questionnaire for CD 10.
c) if the voter refuses, thank them and make a note on the Refusal Sheet
d) at the end of your shift, give the materials to the next "crew". If your crew is doing the last shift of the day, please bring the EXIT POLL box, your Refusal Sheets, and any remaining materials, to the drop-off point (IHOP Severance Circle, Cleveland Hts), where we'll conduct the public counting process. Anyone is welcome to observe this public-counting process.
NOTE: If you are part of an end-of-the-day crew, we also would like you to "capture" posted results. See "Project Post" instructions above. You will use the "long" form of the Tally Sheet, one which reflects the same 4 contests as those on the Exit Poll Questionnaire. Long Tally Sheet
We will provide a stack of questionnaires for you to use, along with an Exit Poll badge, EXIT POLL Box, and other required materials.
For more information, see Volunteer Checklist, Media Fact Sheet , More Info Handout , Refusal Sheet (for Non-Responders) and Coordinator Instructions.
Training is Required
Given the late date, there are no more conference-call training sessions, but training audio recordings are available below. If you are interested in participating in this historic polling activity, please call 216-374-9134.
Five 15-minute "mp3" files recorded from the Saturday, Nov 1st training:
http://www.ohiovigilance.org/ExitPollTrainingPart1.mp3
http://www.ohiovigilance.org/ExitPollTrainingPart2.mp3
http://www.ohiovigilance.org/ExitPollTrainingPart3.mp3
http://www.ohiovigilance.org/ExitPollTrainingPart4SteveFreeman.mp3
http://www.ohiovigilance.org/ExitPollTrainingPart5.mp3
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We can always use help entering data at the end of the evening at the data-dropoff point.
Finally, a NATIONAL Project, you can do in the comfort of your own home:
At the end of the day, in the comfort of your own home, you can "capturing screen shots" from Media Exit Polls websites. You will be "print screening" "snapshots" of these websites over a span of 3 to 5 hours, starting at the close of the election day (varies by state). You will be assigned a state to monitor. This is a very important vote-count-protection project as well. You need to be a little computer literate to do this. We'll provide the training and "screen capture" tools you need to do this. (A dozen people from Northeast Ohio participated in this project on Super Tuesday.) If you are interested in this project, email Jonathan, from Election Defense Alliance.
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To facilitate coordination of volunteers in these different roles, please indicate which role(s) you would like to play by writing your preferences in the subject line, and emailing doingdemocracyradio@gmail.com.
For example: 1) Capture posted results - Cuyahoga
2) Citizen Exit Poll - Cuyahoga (2 preferred shifts: "early" 6:15a-2:00pm; "evening" 2:00p-8:30p -- or a smaller amount of time that you can manage.)
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Media Exit Poll Capture - National
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