MoveOn STILL doesn't get that GOTV won't work if there's election fraud... [View All]

Just got this email from MoveOn (below). I know the topic of them not getting election fraud has come up a number of times. Even if they just created a page with links to educate those who don't know what happened, such as the solarbus website, Chuck Herrin, etc. Imagine how powerful it would be if they got their entire membership behind seeing that every official even remotely connected with elections had a copy of Myth Breakers (one of our most effective fraud fighters) in their hands?

(Myth Breakers:
Facts About Electronic Elections
Essential Information
for Those Entrusted with Making Decisions
about Election Systems in the United States
http://www.votersunite.org/
http://www.votersunite.org/MB2.pdf )

Anyone have access to anyone who can talk to them? They have got to start dealing with their members in a more interactive way if they are to engage a large percentage of the progressive community. We have already had the discussion on DU about how using their feedback form to communicate with them gets no response.


Dear Leave No Voter Behind volunteer,
This past fall, we made history together. Now it's time to do it again.

Leave No Voter Behind didn't get John Kerry elected. But it did have a groundbreaking political impact in communities across the country. We brought many people into politics for the first time, and turned out half a million extra voters for Kerry in key areas – in three states, more than the margin Kerry won by. We've spent the last few months sifting through the data, talking to many of you, reading your comments, and sitting down with other grassroots groups to figure out how to take what we've learned and use it to turn the tide against the Republican leadership.

This Thursday, we're launching the result: our new neighborhood-based campaign to beat the Bush agenda and elect progressives. Will you host a party so that MoveOn members in Portland can meet up and make a local plan to win?

http://action.moveonpac.org/houseparties/newmeeting.html

It's a huge step forward from Leave No Voter Behind: same grassroots emphasis, with a new focus on spreading progressive messages on key issues -- not to mention fewer computer bugs and better communication. And this time, instead of limiting our on-the-ground work to swing states, we'll have something important for everyone to do in their own communities.

For the next six to nine months, we'll do general neighborhood outreach on critical issues like Social Security privatization. As 2006 approaches, we'll finish drafting a progressive agenda and begin targeted voter contacts in support of progressive candidates, using a much improved version of the Web Action Center. We'll rely heavily on volunteer leadership and online communication, but as we get closer to the elections, we'll hire staff organizers for more and more key districts.

It's a plan based on everything we learned together during Leave No Voter Behind. Here are some key lessons:

With teamwork, we can move mountains. In less than 6 weeks, we logged over 6 million door knocks and phone calls to potential Kerry voters. We heard again and again that one key to our success was the mutual support, accountability and just plain fun of working with other MoveOn members. So we're inviting you to form action teams in every town across the country.

Getting out the vote is not enough -- we also need to persuade people we're right. We turned out tons of voters, but in the end, key groups of married women, Latinos, and seniors shifted toward Bush in unprecedented ways. Winning a progressive majority in Congress will take more than voter turnout -- we need to show millions of people how Republican leaders consistently favor corporations over ordinary Americans. We'll do that by fighting Republicans on critical issues that make their priorities clear: right-wing judicial nominations, Social Security, the war in Iraq, electoral reform, and more. On all these issues we'll counter Republican propaganda with grassroots action -- petition signatures, protests, news conferences, letters to the editor, yard signs and leaflets, and more.

Start early! Precinct leaders who started on October 10th talked to three times as many people as folks who started the week before the election. Imagine what we can accomplish if we build teams now to work on issues, and then begin targeted voter contacts a year before the election!

Neighborhoods, neighborhoods, neighborhoods. LNVB leaders say that one of the most important things we did was build community -- engage with people in the neighborhood whom we'd never met and plug them into politics. So we've made that kind of local outreach the core of our strategy.

People who come to house parties are much more likely to get involved. Folks who attended a house party and met up with other MoveOn members were over 5 times more likely to become a Leave No Voter Behind leader. So we know that the best way to launch this new network is with a party. Will you host in Portland and bring more local MoveOn members into the fold?

http://action.moveonpac.org/houseparties/newmeeting.html

Leave No Voter Behind was not without flaws. But together, we set a new standard for what inspired volunteers can accomplish with a little help from technology and a few paid organizers. And this time around, we are starting early enough to do it even better.

It won't be easy to turn the tide against the Bush administration's plans, with their corporate allies spending hundreds of millions of dollars to back them. But we've watched MoveOn members move mountains. Last fall, you showed us you know how to lead. Now we're asking you to lead again.

Thank you for all that you do,

--Adam, Justin, Matt, and the MoveOn PAC team
Friday, March 4th, 2005

P.S. We're still finishing up our anlaysis of what we did in Leave No Voter Behind, to measure our exact impact and figure out what worked best. We'll share more complete results with you in the next few months.

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