Vote Count Protection Project
Results
Summary Report - Exit Polls vs. Unofficial Totals from SOVC |
|
Excel Spreadsheet w/ Exit Poll and SOVC data |
|
(in conjunction with Steve Freeman, Ken Warren and others at www.electionintegrity.org)
Help us verify the accuracy of election vote counts by participating in this very important project. We won't just trust the secret results from the "black boxes."
We need people to conduct exit polls, collect election-night data, analyze election data and help report the results. (Don't worry, we'll provide the necessary training - 1 hour max - for being a "citizen pollster".) This will be a great way to ensure our votes count. For those with technical skills, e.g. data analysis, statistical analysis, web-development, etc., this will be a great way to use those skills for Democracy!
Even if you're already signed up as a poll-worker, election-day technician, observer, election-protection monitor, there are easy but critical things you can do to help with this project! For more information, read the overview...
Overview, Vote Count Protection Project - Cuyahoga County's implementation
Two Election-Day Roles are:
1. "Exit Pollsters" - Half or full-day (For more information, see Overview above, or visit www.electionintegrity.org for general information about the Election Verification Exit Poll we are conducting. More information will be posted soon.)
Pollsters will give exiting voters a very short questionnaire (PDF) (Excel version) and ask them to fill it out and drop into the Exit Poll Ballot Box. We will provide a stack of questionnaires for you to use, along with an Exit Poll badge, and Ballot Box.
What to do at the end of the day? Bring your boxes of questionnaires to a central drop-off point (to be determined).
2. "Data Collectors" Within the Polling Place for end-of-day Poll Closing
Data Collectors (Observers, EDT's, Poll workers) within the Polling Place will review the "Summary Totals" section of the Long Report (See sample) printed after the polls close. Two copies of this "cash-register-tape-like" report will be printed. Data collectors should inform the poll worker that he/she wants to look at it for a minute or two. He/she should write down selective information from the report, namely the results for Races #10, #20, #40 and #60, along with Race #560 (if possible). For more information, click here. A "blank" data-collection form (Excel version) will be used to record those selected election results. (The data-collection form, filled in with sample data, from above, is shown here).
Information for recruiting volunteers who have "INSIDE access" after the polls close is found in this document.
Here's a handy-dandy mapping of the Long Report to the data-collection form.
What to do with the transcribed election results? The preferred method is to enter the data into a Web-based data-entry form If necessary, we can arrange to pick it up, or receive it via fax. URL's and fax numbers will be provided by Tuesday.
(Here's a sample Election Results Report from the May 2006 election.-- Note: this one was from the machine that did the accumulation across the entire polling place. That's why the totals are larger than the ballots cast.)
Please help us with this important project to verify election counts on election day!
If you want to help with Northeast Ohio Vote Count Protection Project, click here to register.
(or email Victoria if you have questions)
What to do if you see an anomaly?
- Call 1-866-OUR-VOTE
- Ohioans, call the Associated Press at 216-771-2172. They want to hear from you (see below)
- Send an email to ReportOhio@wecount2006.org
- Send an email to Victoria@wecount2006.org
Note: Associated Press wants to know about your observations:
Ohioans, contact AP on election day to tell us
about any problems you have with voting or observing voting? You can call
our bureau at 216-771-2172. Last election we were able to report
about some very serious issues (people waiting in lines for hours, voting
machine malfunctions, memory card problems) only because voters
called us an alerted us about them. It's very important that we find out
about these problems as soon as possible on Election Day. We have a
very small staff responsible for a very large state so we need your
help. We also want to monitor how the new voter ID law is being applied and how it affects voters. So we need to hear from them about that, too.
Note: A similar Parallel Election project is planned for the Columbus area. Contact Marj or Rady if you're interested.
Donations to this all-volunteer effort are most appreciated. . Mail to: Ohio Vigilance, 2226 Bellfield Avenue, Cleveland Hts, OH 44106 |
