Carson, California-America Votes 2008-Live from the Field

Voting line in Carson, California on election day Tuesday November 4, 2008 at approx. 10 am Pacific Time. Yes We Can!
Hat tip to Amber for the photo!

US 2008 Elections: My Suspicions...

My suspicion of what is happening right now is this...

The GOP is so extremely desperate. And in this desperation they seem to have mapped out a strategy for victory. I believe that it is quite diabolical and far reaching. Here is what I think is happening:

1. The GOP and media outlets that are sympathetic to the GOP are trying to make the US populace believe that this is a tight race.
2. These powerful people in high places have quieted the damaging stories to hit Mccain-like the possible automobile accident fatality that Mccain was allegedly involved in that took place in 1964.
3. They are also downplaying the affect of Obama's organization, ground game, and money in traditionally red-leaning states.
4. Meanwhile, they are turning up the volume on stories mysteriously timed to have the most impact near election day against Senator Obama, like Obama's aunt.
5. All the while Obama's numbers are still holding steady and even building further.
6. The GOP would have you to believe that ACORN and the Democrats are trying to tamper with democracy. All the while, stories continue to crop up of voting machine malfunctions-all in favor of Mccain!
7. If it turns out to be close-they might try to steal it. If it becomes a run away victory for Obama, then prepare to hear cries of foul coming from the Mccain camp...

Either way-1. Get out and vote, go volunteer, make calls, and donate!

If you see anything foul taking place at the polls then here are some resources:

Courtesy of the Voter Suppression Wiki

Ways that you can get involved in helping safeguard our voting rights this election

• CREDO Action's Immediate Response Network: a text-activist response network to deliver a text message straight to your phone
• Election Protection (1-866-OUR-VOTE/1-888-VE-Y-VOTA): if you are an attorney, law student, or paralegal, we need your help to protect the right to vote. We're recruiting legal volunteers to staff Election Protection Hotlines across the country and work on the ground as mobile legal volunteers.
• Pollworkers for Democracy: an effort to recruit, train, and network citizen pollworkers for the November 4, 2008 election and beyond. 12,507 and counting!
• SourceWatch's Election Protection wiki: a non-partisan, non-profit collaboration of citizens, activists and researchers to build a one-stop-shop for reports of voter suppression and the systemic threats to election integrity
• Voter Suppression Wiki: learn, report, ACT!

Citizen journalism, election documentation and monitoring:

• Twitter Vote Report: share your voting experiences and help get problems fixed in real-time on or before Election Day
• Video the Vote: national initiative to protect voting rights by monitoring the electoral process. We organize citizen journalists—ordinary folks like you and me—to document election problems as they occur
• The UpTake: a non-partisan video citizen-journalism site, partnered with Video the Vote. Our Vote Chasers project encourages volunteers to use video camera phones (iPhone, Nokia N95, etc.) to document election abuses and stream footage live to the web in realtime.
  
• YouTube's Video Your Vote: a non-partisan program produced in partnership with PBS, encourages American voters to document their experiences at the polls on Election Day, and is also a one-stop-shop to view exclusive videos from voter registration experts, election reform activists, and state officials, as well as video footage from the PBS archives for a historical look at voting through the years.
• VoterStory '08: collect and classify voter complaints in real time across the Internet and provide a data feed of complaints that can be addressed in real time by Voter Protection groups who partner with VoterStory; a nice embeddable widget to put on a web site.
• Wired's Problem Reporting page: Had a problem casting your ballot in this year's general election? We want to hear from you. Wired.com has created a map to track your issues, but we need your help to complete it. Web- and email-access.
• No Voter Left Behind.net, because an election is a terrible thing to steal. Use their one-point Theft Reporting System or volunteer to help.
• The New York Times Polling Place Photo Project: a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that encourages voters to capture, post and share photographs of this general election.
• My Fair Election: Report your polling station's condition on Election Day as part of a crowd-sourced map of electoral conditions across the United States.
• Community Values Vote: Election news from grassroots organizations
• CNN Voter Irregularities Map: calls from the CNN Voter Hotline (1-877-GOCNN-08)