|
I'm not a "Diebold doubter", there are 100 threads talking about the voting machines. I want to add my personal experience as another possible explanation why 2-5 were resoundingly defeated:
note: RON= Reform Ohio Now. Measures 2-5 were on the ballot and could have dramatically remedied the awful situation we have here. www.reformohionow.org did a great job writing the measures, but the fell asleep on the job when it came to promoting them:
You won't believe the run-around I got when I tried to Volunteer my emails started two months ago: a call to the local party office and two emails to RON, saying I'm ready to volunteer.
I never once got a response, other than some sporadic mass emails asking for cash. I obliged, but I was ready to canvas, coordinate, call, pepper the landscape with signs, posters, flyers, greeting cards - and whatever.
TWO NIGHTS before the election, RON sent a special mailer out asking when people were available to volunteer. I checked the boxes and eagerly awaited my phone list and/or further instructions.
Nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch.
Maybe their strategy was to raise cash and run ads, but they could've coordinated their ground troops much better. Hell, I was ready to: with my infant daughte in-tow.
If the RON folks were going to fight a media war, they were soundly outspent by the cabal who brought us Coingate:
Ads saying that a "NO" vote would stop corruption (HA!) were running nonstop in Cinci-Dayton area.
The message actually said "Fight corruption in Ohio - vote no on 2-5"
they were counting on nobody actually reading the measures. They won again.
|