Ohio Vigilance

Our purpose / who we are:  Group of “citizens-turned-private-investigators” who want to investigate “what went down” with the election, particularly in Ohio.  We are collecting, formatting, aggregating, analyzing data from Boards of Elections, Secretary of State, Websites and other sources.   We will prepare reports, present our results to interested groups (legal teams/investigations), and “be the media” to get our findings “out there.”

 

What you can do?

  1. Help obtain data from Ohio County Board of Elections and Ohio Secretary of State
  2. Web Research / Contacting data sources other than BOE’s and SOS’s (above)
  3. Preparing tools and training materials to help people a) gather data, b) transcribe and reformat data, 3) analyze data, 4) conduct public hearings.
  4. Transcribing text info into electronic/database format
  5. Reformatting data (changing data from one format to another—e.g. PDF to Excel)
  6. Help with website
  7. Presenting data (e.g. graphing/charting)  
  8. Conducting research to identify analysis results which can be documented in our database and which might be replicated in other counties.
  9. Analyzing data
  10. Writing reports describing analysis results.
  11. Training people to be “investigators”, “data collectors”, and “analysts”        
  12. Updating our internal database and Ohio Vigilance Database (and other archives) with information sources and analysis results
  13. Recruiting/managing/directing volunteers
  14. Filing/organizing research and analysis documents and media
  15. Contacting voters (phone and door-to-door)
  16. Distributing reports to media and other advocacy groups, e.g. BlackBoxVoting, CaseOhio, USCountVotes,
  17. Administrative help - copying/filing
  18. Fundraising

 

Tools/Prototypes/Training Materials

·         Data Collection

1.       Data-collection guide

2.       Public Records Request forms

3.       Public Records Request checklists

4.       Legal rights to public data

5.       Suggestions from “the field”

6.       Data Sources: Libraries, Census, others sources

·         Data Analysis

1.       Data-analysis guide

2.       Prior-analyses samples/examples

3.       Analysis needed

4.       Guides to types of analyses

5.       Data sources

6.       How to analyze?     

7.       How to publish results?

8.       Suggestions from “the field”

9.       Where to obtain data?

·         Media

1.       Media lists

2.       Public officials lists

·         Miscellaneous Tools

1.       Ohio Map

2.       Ohio BOE Contact Info

3.       Resources/links

 

To join the Ohio Vigilance Yahoo Group, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OhioVigilance/    and  hit “Join This Group” button