Joanna
Michael Pollak wrote:
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> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>
>> <http://monroelab.net/blog/?p=449>
>>
>> And by the way, López Obrador's distributed intelligence technique
>> for countering fraud was simply brilliant and a model for others
>> (perhaps even here within the beast's belly) to follow.
>
>
> It's definately a model of inspiration (and I sure hope they win!)
> But besides the suggestion that the internet is a helpful organizing
> tool, does it really offer us any usable tactics? IIUC, their
> knockout punch seems to depend on things down south being old
> fashioned and low tech, i.e., physical tokens that are witnessed and
> publicly recorded at each local site. But electronic vote shaving
> would change the local results, so there'd be no comparable
> discrepency to compare. If we wanted to mount a similar challenge in
> our country, I'm not sure we could escape the need for centrally
> organized independent exit polls. Perhaps such a thing could be
> organized by a purpose built 509 org in conjunction with organizations
> that routinely mount operations overseas. But there'd be more a lot
> more to it than what is now going in Mexico -- which looks seems like
> it's going be a very tough fight even with all those gotcha pictures
> which we wouldn't have.
>
> BTW, Julio -- thanks for starting up the purpose-built blog! Really
> meets a need.
>
> Micha
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